DATE AND VENUE
18.11.2017, 20.30
19.11.2017, 15.00, 19.00
Moda Sahnesi
Lasts app. 145’; 2 Acts.
MODA SAHNESİ
- Written by: William Shakespeare
- Directed by: Kemal Aydoğan
- Translated into Turkish by: Emine Ayhan
- Stage Design: Bengi Günay
- Light Design: İrfan Varlı
- Music: Berkay Yiğitaslan
- Animation: Ethem Onur Bilgiç
- Performers: Hüseyin Avni Danyal, Mürsel Yaylalı, Gürsu Gür, Zeynep Tuğçe Bayat, Münircan Cindoruk, Ziver Armağan Açıl, Yaşar Bayram, Selen Şeşen, Kaan Songün, İnanç Koçak, Ertürk Erkek
The Tempest, Shakespeare’s lively play which combines hefty issues such as power, betrayal, revenge, forgiveness and colonization with a comic atmosphere is brought to stage by Kemal Aydoğan, a director who likes to play around with Shakespeare. This is a take on the play where the fantastical construction of The Tempest accompany the foundation of public theatre and the political statement of the play on the issue of “being liberated” is brought to the fore. As was the case in Aydoğan’s other adaptations of Shakespeare, get ready to meet a Tempest that communicates with the contemporary person and speaks directly to you.
MODA STAGE Established in 1969 as a movie theatre named Kafkas Cinema, the hall was turned into Moda Cinema in 1984 providing an important art venue for Istanbul that hosts concerts, theatre troupes and film festivals. After being a prominent venue for Istanbul art life in the 80’s and 90’s, the hall fell into dire times in recent years, but was resuscitated by the coming together of 12 people active in different branches of film and theatre who, inspired by Moda Cinema, transformed the place into Moda Stage and it once again became a quality venue for art events. Since its establishment in 2013, Moda Stage contributed to inter-cultural dialogue by hosting domestic and foreign artists in a variety of different art disciplines and worked towards proliferation of art by organizing workshops and seminars aimed at children and youth. Focusing on producing in-house plays, Moda Stage is devoted to bringing quality classic and modern plays to audiences.
DIRECTOR Graduated from Ankara University Department of Theatre (DTFC) in 1987, Kemal Aydoğan joined Tiyatro Stüdyosu (Theatre Studio) as a production assistant in 1990 and worked there as an executive between 1994-1998. He was one of the founding members of Oyun Atölyesi (Play Workshop) in 1999 and worked there as an executive and a director until his departure from the company in October 2012. At Oyun Atölyesi he directed Azrail’in Gözyaşları (2004), Othello (2004), The Other Death of Joan of Arc (2005), Timon of Athens (2006), Taming of the Shrew (2006), Partners in Crimes (2007), Testosterone (2008), 7 / Shakespeare Musical (2009), Macbeth (2010), The Night of Don Juan (2011), Anthony and Cleopatra (2012–2013), and The Story of the Panda Bear (2012) as well as children’s plays Son Gülen İyi Gülermiş (2000), and Kesmeşeker (2002). One of the founding members of Moda Stage, he directed the plays Hamlet (2013), All Crazy People Love Me (2013) School of Clowns (2013), 6 Actors in Search of a Director 2014), An Incident at the Border (2014), Roberto Zucco (2014), Dog, Woman, Men (2015), Brasserie (2015), A Midsummer Night’s Dream(2015), and We Love and Know Nothing (2016) at the company.
