DATE AND VENUE

25.05.2016, 20.30
26.05.2016, 20.30
Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage

Lasts app. 135’; 2 Acts.

İSTANBUL BÜYÜKŞEHİR BELEDİYESİ ŞEHİR TİYATROLARI

• Written by: Anton Çehov
• Translated into Turkish by: Behçet Necatigil
• Directed by: Yıldırım Fikret Urağ
• Dramaturgy: Dilek Tekintaş
• Set Design: Nurullah Tuncer- Sırrı Topraktepe
• Costume Design: Nurullah Tuncer-Yeşim Türkgeldi
• Music: Selim Atakan
• Light and Video Design: Kemal Yiğitcan
• Efekt: Özgür Yaşar İşler
• Assistant Directors: Mert Tanık
• Regie Assistants: Pınar Demiral, Berk Samur, Kamer Karabektaş, Z. Bahar Çebi
• Korrepetit and Vocal Trainer: Çağrı Hün
• Performers: Jülide Kural, Nazif Uğur Tan, Mert Asutay, Pelin Abay, Ersin Sanver, Rozet Hubeş, Mert Tanık, Hakan Arlı, Mert Aykul, Kamer Karabektaş, Z. Bahar Çebi, Yeşim Koçak

Chekhov said "I put around 80 kilos of love in it" for The Seagull, yet as hearts get broken, the love they can not carry leaks out. The Seagull, one of the most layered plays about life and art, still stands as a masterpiece today. Medvedenko is in love with Masha; Masha with Treplyov; Treplyov with Nina and Nina with Arkadina Trigorin. Treplyov, who desires to be a pioneering playwright, and Nina, who desires to be a famous actress, are faced against Trigorin and Arkadina... A premiere turned into a fiasco, a woman falling for a more successful playwright, a man carried away by a younger actress, and art which is constantly produced and consumed, pushed towards dreams or reality only to fill in the emptiness experienced...