DATE AND VENUE
26 May / 18:30
27 May / 20:30
Aziz Nesin Stage
Ve Diğer Şeyler Topluluğu
- Written and Directed by: Yeşim Özsoy Gülan
- Rhythm and Musical Director: Tugay Başar
- Costume & Stage Design: Başak Özdoğan Pirim
- Project Idea: Genco Gülan, Sanem Öge, Yeşim Özsoy Gülan
- Performers: Sedat Kalkavan, Yaman Ceri, Sanem Öge, Barış Tecimen, Murat Akdağ, Burcu Esenler, Kıvanç Ergun, Nükhet Akkaya, Buket Yanmaz, Nurgül Uluç, Şahin Irmak, Lemi Mark Levitas
- Ve Diğer Şeyler Topluluğu would like to thank to: Ruhi Ayangil, Necdet Yaşar, Fikret Karakaya and Tolga Köylü.
“Limping Tales from İstanbul” is built around the concept of integrating aksak rhyhtm into sound, text and acting. Aksak rhythm is a particular style in Ottoman musical structure, a musical metre characterized by combinations of irregular units of beats. The text of the play is made up of 12 fragmented monologues of 12 characters who are in some way related with each other and are all based in Istanbul. Sections of the play are designed according to variations of aksak rhythm. (aksak-limping, halting, not flowing). Concepts of the symmetry/asymetry, order/disorder are at stake as the play unfolds with a series of composed hitches. Just like living in İstanbul, despite all the hitches the play goes on. “Ve Diğer Şeyler Topluluğu” is an ensemble concentrated on new texts, new technologies and interdisciplinarity. Another project of the same theatre group “House - A Cacophonic Play” will be shown at the “New Plays form Europe Theatre Biennial” based in Wiesbaden, Germany in June 2004.
