ANKARA ART THEATRE

• Drama: Nazım HİKMET
• Directed by: Yılmaz ONAY
• Music: Nurettin ÖZŞUCA
• Coreography: Mehmet YALIZ
• Set Design: Sertel ÇETİNER
• Costume: Birsen SELAHİ
• Guest Artists: Nurhan ÖZENEN, Serpin SÜKAN, İlker GÜRESUN, Altay ÖZBEK, Yonca AKÖZER, Lale Oya ÖZAN, Ali GÜL, Doğan BERK
• Cast: Rutkay AZİZ, Erol DEMİRÖZ, Yaşar AKIN, Altan EREKLİ, Koray ERGUN, Altan GÖRDÜM, Mehmet Ulay, Ali ERKAZAN, Hakan AKIN, İsmail BOZKURT, Yaşar KARAKULAK, Cumhur ATALAN, Jale AYLANÇ, Şebnem EREKLİ

One of the few plays of the famous Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet who lived in exile for many years. The play brings together the legendary “Yusuf”, and an Egyptian mason, while emphasizing the wife of Yusuf, Zeliha; as a character which the legend seems to leave in shade. The dramaturgy has aimed to amplify and bring into light the significant “alienation” sections that are present in the masons chorus and the poem adaptations. This determined a musical composition that carries out both the poetic value and the theatrical function of the poems, altogether with the choreography and set design.