DATE AND VENUE
23.11.2017, 20.30
24.11.2017, 15.00, 20.30
Yunus Emre Kültür Merkezi Turhan Tuzcu Sahnesi
Lasts app. 70’ no intermission.
ŞERMOLA PERFORMANS
- Concept & Directed by: Mîrza Metîn
- Light Design: Alev Topal
- Costume Design: Hilal Polat
- Music & Sound Design: Başar Ünder
- Regie Assistants: Merve Akpınar, Baran Yılmaz, Talip Şahin, Berkan Rodi
- Production Coordinator & Technical Performer: Hazni Demir
- Performers: Ayşegül Tekin, Esra Yıldırım, Gamze Çelik, Melisa Akman, Nagihan Gürkan
A performative testimony on our current times where we are under surveillance of not only the tools of the system but also the ever present social tools through which we monitor each other. As five female subjects communicate through their bodies in a space where they are locked up and forbidden to speak we will witness tensions rising between them. The games they construct will turn into competition, competition will turn into lust for power, and lust will turn into violence. Conceived and directed by Mîrza Metîn, who examines the possibilities of the body, the audience is positioned as both the observer and the observed. Get ready to contemplate on how individuals gradually turn into the things they criticize or avoid.
ŞERMOLA PERFORMANCE Established in 2008 under the leadership of Mîrza Metîn and Berfin Zenderlioğlu. The company turned towards multi-cultural and multi-language productions after initially staging exclusively Kurdish plays. Since its inception, the company produced original plays such as Qeşmerên Apoletî, Reşê Şevê, Arkadaş Arıyorum (Children’s Play), Cerb, Bûka Lekî, Dîsko 5 No’lu, Antigone2012, Gor, Çêna Dengizî, Merheba, Dil Kuşu, Di Tuwaletê De, Serencama Qijikan/Crows and the Fringe Ensemble co-production Rawestgeharaf / Aradurak / Zwischenhalt and trained actors who can use Kurdish on the stage. Şermola Performance focuses on experimental staging that centers around actors with reference to text. The company toured many countries and received numerous awards for their original texts and productions.
DIRECTOR Graduated from Istanbul University Department of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy, Mîrza Metîn studied acting at Teatra Jiyana Nû between 1994–2003. From 2003 to 2008 he was a member of the Seyr-î Mesel Theatre as an actor and served as an instructor and executive as well. Together with Berfin Zenderlioğlu he founded Şermola Performance in October 2008 and served as a writer, director and actor. His plays were translated into English and German garnering him many awards and he was invited to festivals in Germany and New York as a playwright. Influenced by Dengbêj voice/breathing and storytelling techniques he gave acting workshops under the title of Dîwan for many years and currently continues to work as a writer, director and actor with domestic and international companies, most notably Şermola Performance.
