VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE

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DATE AND VENUE

19.05.2016, 20.30
20.05.2016, 20.30
21.05.2016, 20.30
22.05.2016, 15.00
Tiyatro Pera
24.05.2016, 20.30
Caddebostan Kültür Merkezi

Lasts app. 150’; 2 Acts.
Turkish with English surtitles.

TİYATRO PERA

  • Written by: Christopher Durang
  • Translated into Turkish by: Nesrin Kazankaya
  • Directed by: Yücel Erten
  • Dramaturgy: Şafak Eruyar
  • Stage Design: Başak Özdoğan
  • Costume Design: Fatma Öztürk
  • Assistant Director: Zeynep Özden
  • Production Assistants: Serin Öztoprak, Mert Yılmaz Yıldırım
  • Performers: Şerif Erol (Vanya), Tilbe Saran (Sonia), Nesrin Kazankaya (Masha), Doğan Akdoğan (Spike), Başak Meşe (Cassandra), Gamze İpek (Nina)

With constant allusions to Chekhov, the playwright manages to create a unique story that takes place in a small county in modern day USA. Vanya and Sonia spend their days, unemployed, in a house owned and taken care of by their sister Masha, a movie star. Masha comes back home for a visit, accompanied by her new young lover Spike. Things come to a boil with the inclusion of the soothsayer cleaning woman Cassandra, and the girl next door Nina. It is as if the characters’ Chekhovian names dictate their destinies. The despair of countryside life, the loneliness of the modern man become the main themes in a play where witty comedy meets existential gloom.

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