DATE AND VENUE

18.05.2014, 20.30
19.05.2014, 15.00
Üsküdar Stüdyo Sahne

Lasts 90’; no intermission.
Turkish, with English surtitles.

BİRİKEN

• Written by: Anton Chekov, Aleksei Sergeyevich Suvorin
• Translated into Turkish by: Tansu Akgün (Chekov), biriken (Suvorin)
• Adapted, Directed, Stage Design & Video: biriken (Melis Tezkan, Okan Urun)
• Performers: Kanbolat Görkem Arslan, Mehmet Bilge Aslan, Yelda Baskın, Fırat Çelik, Meral Çetinkaya, Pınar Göktaş, Defne Halman, Ahmet Yaşar
• Lighting Design: Nicolas Marie
• Project Assistant: Betül İngin, Başak Ertem
• Tatyana’s Costume: Ersöz Ata
• Thanks to: SALT Galata, İKSV, Fransız Kültür Merkezi, İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, FABRİKA, TRS Lines Paris, Armada Pera Otel, Cangöz Müzik, Kemal and Sibel Tuğcu, Pınar Azizoğlu, Bahar Temiz

A woman, wandering around times and spaces like a ghost, finds herself in the middle of a crowd. Birthday, wedding, funeral... All of them involve similar crowds. The new project of “Biriken” is inspired by Chekhov and Suvorin’s eponymous plays, Tatyana Repina. Chekhov wrote his play as a follow-up for Suvorin’s. Suvorin was inspired by Evlalia Kadmina who committed suicide on stage in 1881. Biriken, traces Tatyana’s suicide act, in between reality and fiction, and her turnabout. The journey reveals what is left in the past while the play questions the wounds made by time and the feeling of disintegration caused by efforts for adapting the world in a transformation.