BETRAYAL

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DATE AND VENUE

25.11.2017, 20.30
26.11.2017, 15.00
Caddebostan Kültür Merkezi

Lasts app. 115’; 2 Acts.

ANKARA DEVLET TİYATROSU

  • Written by: Nahid Sırrı Örik
  • Directed by: Özen Yula
  • Assistant Director: İclal Karaduman
  • Stage Design: Hakan Dündar
  • Light Design: Osman Uzgören
  • Costume Design: Özge Akarsu
  • Choreography: Banu Demir
  • Style Trainer: Hülya Aydoğdu
  • Assistant: Cem Sel
  • Stage Manager: Nafiz Hataş
  • Props Manager: Sinan Devir
  • Cast: Mehmet Akay, Serpil Gül, Levent Çelmen, Başak Vural, Nur Serengül, Şivan Binici, Kıvanç Değirmenci, Selver Kınık Onurlu, Didem Ruhi, Erkan Erkoç, Fatma Nur İsmailçebi, Merve Nur Türkan, Cem Sel, Duygu Biçer, Volkan Özman, Ozan Arabacı, Ulaş Karadağ, Eylül Aykut, Deniz Alver Çamlıdağ, Cebrail Esen

Betrayal is a never-before-staged play re-written in 1953 by Nahid Sırrı Örik, the profound master of the dark side of human kind in Turkish literature. In the backdrop is the young Turkish Republic of the ‘30s... An undisclosed rivalry is brewing between Sacide and Macide, two sisters who live in a mansion in Ankara. The rivalry between Sacide, who is engaged to Celal, and Macide, whom Celal is in love with, continues until Sacide chooses a life of wealth. However, instead of ending the rivalry this choice exacerbates it. In this contentious love triangle, beauty and ugliness, goodness and evil, victory and defeat are all entangled. And maybe, the loser is the victor...

ANKARA STATE THEATRES Since its foundation in 1949, the State Theatres have been carrying out its mission of introducing the Turkish public to the art of theatre and making theatre a part of daily life. Very shortly after its foundation the institution turned to establishing regional theatres, taking theatre to the remotest parts of the country and during the process became the world’s largest state sponsored theatre and went from strength to strength and continues to do so. Today, State Theatres constitutes the backbone of Turkish Theatre with 65 stages (in 12 permanent and 11 traveling regions), 8 theatre festivals (2 of which are national and 6 of which are international), 160 plays annually and a total of 6,500 curtain calls.

DIRECTOR Born in Eskişehir, Özen Yula graduated from Hacettepe University Department of Economics. He received his master’s degree in theatre from Ankara University. His plays are translated to 14 languages and produced in countries such as the U.S., Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Bosnia, Belarus, Finland, and Poland. He collaborated with various European writers in co-productions and his plays and short stories are published in anthologies in the U.S., England, France, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, and Bulgaria. In 2010, he gave lectures at Cleveland State University Theatre Department and had his plays produced at CSU and Cleveland Public Theatre. He wrote many plays, most notably Ay Tedirginliği, Dünyanın Ortasında Bir Yer, Kırmızı Yorgunları, Gözü Kara Alaturka, Sahibinden Kiralık, Gayri Resmi Hurrem, Şems!.. Unutma!.., Pusulasız, Derin Bir Ülkede, Bakarsın Bulutlar Gider, Rahvan Giden Atlılar, and Ben O İstanbul’u Çok Sevdim and directed many plays, such as Yakındoğu’da Emanet, Gözü Kara Alaturka, Ay Tedirginliği, Stop the Tempo, Kocasını Pişiren Kadın, Şems!.. Unutma!.., Codename: EXILE, Don’t Call Me Fat, Pusulasız, Bakarsın Bulutlar Gider, Ben O İstanbul’u Çok Sevdim, Ân, Kadınlar, and Filler Ve Saireler. He received numerous awards such as, Haldun Taner Short Story Award, Cevdet Kudret Literature Award, Afife Awards Cevat Fehmi Başkut Playwright Award, Ismet Küntay Best Playwright Award, Savaş Dinçel Best Playwright Award, Sevda Şener Theatre Critics Award, and İsmet Küntay Best Director Award.

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