DATE AND VENUE

27, 28 May 2004 / 20:30
Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage

5. Sokak Tiyatrosu

• Co-producers: International Istanbul Theatre Festival, Züercher Theatre Spektakel, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Utrecht Stadtschouwburg
• Designed and Directed by: Mustafa Avkıran
• Co-Director and Choreography: Övül Avkıran
• Stage and Costume Design: Ali Cem Köroğlu
• Music: İhsan Kılavuz
• Assistant to the director: Şirin Aktemur Toprak
• Performed by: Harun Ateş, Mustafa Avkıran, Övül Avkıran, Murat Bekin, Cem Çetinkaya, Kıvanç Fındıklı, İhsan Kılavuz, Sema.

Ashura is a transhistorical narrative relating us the story of people, all their languages and religions, who had to undergo painful exiles as a result of the intention to engender a “homogeneous” society on the Anatolian soil. Ashura is condolences offered for “the others,” presented on the tenth day of the “Muharrem Month” in the Islamic Calendar (the time for making “Noah’s Pudding”). Ashura is an act of reverting to the truth and a verbal history of cultural culmination. Made from wheat, rice, water, sugar, beans, chickpeas, almond, chestnut, hazelnut, currants, rose water, clove and ginger... With its name as old as the human history... It is Ashura that comes to the fore now to show us the routes exiles were on the move. Mustafa Avkıran