GERTRUDE-THE CRY

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DATE AND VENUE

03.06.2014, 20.30
04.06.2014, 20.30
Moda Sahnesi

Lasts 105’; no intermission.
Turkish, with English surtitles.

  • Written by: Howard Barker
  • Directed by: and Dramaturgy Ata Ünal
  • Choreography: & Movement Arrangement Gizem Erden
  • Music and Sound: Alper Maral
  • Stage Design: Nazar Şigaher
  • Costumes: Hakan Akkaya
  • Lighting Design: Arek Nişanyan
  • Project Assistants: Tuğçe Kanbur, Güliz Oktar, Ece Göktay, Ceren Koç
  • Project Support Assistants: Tolga Bayraklı, Dilara Akan, Hasan Ergun, Uğur Altun, Zehra Şahin

Performers

  • Gertrude (Queen): Derya Alabora
  • Claudius (Prince): Turan Günay
  • Hamlet (Heir): Alican Yücesoy
  • Ragusa (Young woman): Gonca Vuslateri
  • Cascan (Servant to Gertrude): Ruhi Sarı
  • Isola (Mother of Claudius): Özden Çiftçi
  • Albert (Duke of Mecklenburg): Çağlar Yiğitoğulları

Focusing on Gertrude instead of Hamlet, Gertrude-The Cry offers a new approach to Shakespeare’s tragedy by turning Hamlet’s moralism upside down. The play challenges our sense of Hamlet and provokes us to rethink about him. It considers Gertrude and Claudius as a passionate couple sharing a love defying logic, not as accomplices of betrayal. Underlining the themes of sexuality, death, sin, love and ecstasy with a poetic language, an impressive visuality and sound, provocative ideas and black humour, Gertrude-The Cry provokes a bitter questioning of moral choices with a spectacular immodesty.

This play is not suitable for audience under 16.

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