DATE AND VENUE
08.06.2010, 19.00, Kadir Has University
- Written and Directed by: Sedef Ecer
- Translated from French by: Sedef Ecer, İzzeddin Çalışlar
- Project Consultants: Louise Loubrieu (France), Sema Mağara, İzzeddin Çalışlar (Turkey)
- Music: Thomas Bellorini, Frédérique Mathieu, Céline Bothorel
- Performers: Serra Yılmaz, Tilbe Saran, Ariane Brousse, Sema Mağara, Frédérique Mathieu, Clémence Barbier, Livia Arditi
- Special Guest: Cansel Elçin
- Turkish Subtitles: Sedef Ecer, İzzeddin Çalışlar
Written by Sedef Ecer in French, On the Threshold (Sur le seuil) is being hosted by French Cultural Institute and 17th International İstanbul Theatre Festival after it has been staged in France. Recognised by French National Theatre Centre’s “Incentive Award” and by Mediterranean Writers’ Encounter as the winner, On the Threshold was published by Amandier Publishing House with Jacques Baillon’s complimentary prolusion. The play has been translated into Polish and Turkish; radio adaptations into Hebrew and Persian are being prepared.
On the Threshold has been analysed in Theatre Departments of Creteil and Paris 8 Universities, senior students of Jacques Brel High School got their baccalaureate’s degree by analyzing the play.
The play is about 25 –supposedly total strangers– characters’ moments that are stuck in between the borders, ajars, passing lines, briefly the edges of life in a humourous and poetic way.
The first version of On the Threshold has been staged on La Courneuve and Fecamp Theatres with Turkish Actors; Serra Yılmaz and Tilbe Saran along with French actors Ariane Brousse, Frédérique Mathieu and Camille Voitellier. The play has also been staged by different companies in Cannes Alexandre III Theatre, Centquatre, Maison des Auteurs, Cenevre Orangerie Theatre, Théâtre 13, Maison des Metallos, Théâtre de la Pépinière as a reading play which are accompanied by Madeleine Marion, the legendary actor of Comédie Française, Véronique Nordey, Natalie Royer.
Now, On the Threshold is ready to meet the audience with a new cast and a new stage direction from the part of the writer, Sedef Ecer.
