DATE AND VENUE

10.05.2014, 20.30
11.05.2014, 15.00
12.05.2014, 20.30
Üsküdar Tekel Sahnesi

Lasts 75’, one act.
Turkish, with English surtitles.

İSTANBUL DEVLET TİYATROSU

• Written by: Heiner Müller
• Translated into Turkish by: Zehra Aksu Yılmazer
• Directed by: Ayşe Emel Mesçi
• Stage Design: Efter Tunç
• Costume Design: Ayşegül Alev
• Lighting Design: Yakup Çartık
• Music: Okay Temiz
• Dance Arrangement: Meltem Yorulmaz
• Movement Arrangement: Ayşe Emel Mesçi
• Tango Teacher: Tanju Yıldırım
• Correpetitor: Onur Monkul, Sevda Sezek
• Dramaturgy & Text Installation: Ali Berktay
• Dramaturgist: Füsun Ataman Berke
• Assistant Director: Elif Nutku
• Stage Direction Assistant: Yaşar Doğu Akol, Fatoş Ece Köroğlu
• Stage Manager: Şafak Doğan Yalçın
• Kondivit: Taner Turan
• Light Control: Kemal Ediz
• Performers: Hakan Meriçliler, Neriman Uğur, Yıldırım Gücük, Elif Nutku, Onur Serimer, Sema Kuray, Ayhan Anıl, Turgay Şeker, Görkem Koyuncu, Murat Kapu, Sedat Can Güvenç, Onur Serimer, Fatih Gençkal, Engin Ünal, Tunç Efe, Rami Çakır, Ozan Özcan, Koray Can Yanaşır, Deniz Özdemir, Dicle Doğan, Meral Aslan, Tuğba Begde, Nihal Usanmaz, Müge Çakır, Buket Orhan, İrem Yünsel, Özge Oktar, Ayşe Kemikoğlu, Fatoş Ece Köroğlu

The Hamletmachine has already retained a solid place in modern theatre history as an attempt to defy classical dramatic structure. Loosely based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, it is much more comprehensive. This extremely challenging work of Heiner Müller, one of the greatest intellectuals of our era, is a visual feast addressing many themes from stereotyped historical perception to falls of dictators, violence against women to revolutions. However, it is a play that demands awareness without any preconception from the audience. It is a montage shaped by an intellectual’s reaction against catastrophes, rapes and murders ̶ an intellectual carrying his heavy brain as a hump.