ANKARA ART THEATRE

• Written by: Klaus MANN
• Adapted to stage by: Ariane MNOUCHKINE
• Directed by: Rutkay AZİZ
• Translation: Özdemir İNCE
• Set Design: Sertel ÇETİNER
• Costume Design: Birsen SELAHİ
• Light: Osman TOSUN
• Aaa. To Dir.: İlker GÜRESUN
• Assistants: Bengi Öz, Selda CAVCAV, Serpil KILIÇ
• Production Manager: Yaşar KARAKULAK
• Tech. Stage Manager: Tuncer ŞAHİN
• Technical Staff: Hakkı GÜLTEKİN, Ahmet YILDIZ, Mustafa KÖSE, İbrahim SEBAT

Cast

• Klaus Mann: Metin Coşkun
• Sebastien Brückner, Messenger: Burak SOYGAZİ
• Lorenz, Actor: Hakan AKIN
• Narrator, Alex Hendrik Hofgen: Altan EREKLİ
• Mefisto / Carola Martin: Serpin SÜKAN
• Hans Miklas, Student: Engür Rutkay
• Theresa von Herzfeld: Şebnem GÜRSOY
• Madam La Baronne, Otto Ulrich: Altan GÖRDÜM
• Clark, Faust General Fonnesique, Magnus Gottchalk: Erol DEMİRÖZ
• Ms. Efeli: Jale AYLANÇ
• Knurr: Yaşar AKIN
• Juliette: Bilge MURATHAN
• Woman, Myriam Horrowitz: Nurhan ÖZENEN
• Linamuque Anja, Erika Brückner: Demet GENÇ
• Consierge Esther, Nicoletta von Niebuhr: Ender Sevgi ÖZDEMİR
• Theophile Sarder: Ali ERKAZAN
• Officer: İsmail BOZKURT
• Businessman, Thyssen, Hitler: İlker GÜRESUN
• Thomas Brückner: Doğan BERK
• Emelyne: Lale ÖZAN
• Ludwig: Aykut ÖZBALTACI
• Josthinkel: Mehmet ULAY

We would like to thank the technical staff of the State Theatres and the students at AST for their efforts in the realization of the setting.

Based on “A Life Story” by Klaus Mann (son of Thomas Mann and nephew of Heinrich Mann, both wellknown german authors), “Mephisto” (1936) was adapted to stage by Arianne Minouchkine, directress of Theatre du Soleil. The story was also filmed by Istwan Szabo in 1981, which won the Best Foreign Film Oscar Award.

“Mephisto” tells the story tells the story of an actor during the Nazi regime in Germany, who has to make a choice of leaving the country or making a compromise with the ideology he hates. He stayes and throughout the play he becomes more and more a part of it.