THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL

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DATE AND VENUE

23.05.2016, 20.30
24.05.2016, 20.30
Zorlu PSM Drama Stage

Lasts app. 120’; 2 Acts.
Turkish with English surtitles.

TALİMHANE TİYATROSU

  • Co-Produced by: Arcola Theatre, Talimhane Tiyatrosu
  • Written by: Elif Şafak
  • Adapted by: Angelo Savelli
  • Translated into Turkish by: Oya Bacak
  • Directed by: Mehmet Ergen
  • Set Design: Anthony Lamble
  • Costume Design: Jenny Beavan
  • Performers: Alican Altun, Aysan Sümercan, Gökay Akgör, Gökçen Gökçebağ, Görkem Acar, Hande Ataizi, İdil Yener, Nihal Koldaş, Nora Tokhosepyan, Pelin Ermiş, Selen Uçer, Serra Yılmaz

Elif Şafak’s novel The Bastard of Istanbul raised a lot of controversy and was even the subject of a criminal investigation. Still it is one of the writer’s best-selling novels and will be staged for the first time in Turkey. Centered around the relationships of a Turkish and an Armenian family, the play looks back on both societies and tells us about the Armenian incidents of 1915 together with the stories of four generations of women from a family which lost all of its men before their time.

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