DATE AND VENUE

24, 25 May / 20:30
Venue Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage

İzmit Municipal Theatre

• Written by: Aristophanes
• Adapted and Directed by: Yücel Erten
• Music: Cem İdiz
• Choreography: Salima Sökmen
• Musical Director: Çiğdem Erken
• Stage and Costume Design: Efter Tunç
• Light Design: Erol Dinçdemir
• Assistant Directors: Arzu Bigat Baril, Esra B. Bilgin, Funda İlhan
• Piano: Çiğdem Erken, Cemal Demir
• Laouto: Tarık Keskiner
• Bouzouki: Erdem Irmak
• Performers: Tardu Flordun, Tarık Keskiner, Bayazıt Gülercan, Meltem Özsavaş, Eylem Tanrıver, Aysel Yılmaz, Serhat Tutumluer, Engin Benli, Şafak Karali, Betül Çobanoğlu, Funda İlhan, Mehmet Çevik, A. Yaşar Özveri
• Chorus Leader: Melih Düzenli
• Chorus: Ufuk Aşar, Engin Benli, Veysel Sami Berikan, Esra Bezen Bilgin, Mehmet Çevik, Barış Falay, Tardu Flordun, Erdem Irmak, Şafak Karali, Tarık Keskiner, Meltem Özsavaş, A. Yaşar Özveri, Mehmet Serimer, Aydın Sigalı, Eylem Tanrıver, Aysel Yılmaz

The “Peace” adaptation is a play that cross-examines the shared contents and brotherhood to do with the heritage of Antiquity, the Ancient Greece. It is an outcome of an effort to view this heritage from the Anatolian perspective. It looks into “the question” for want of a better term, “if it is possible at all to have one foot on one side of the Aegean and the other one on the other side.” Therefore, while on one hand it aims at reintroducing Aristophanes’ critical mind-set to the modern times; on another hand, it tries to liaise with a narrative style stemming from the Turkish performance folklore. It is this twofold interest that its text, tune and dance serve to concretize.