IMM City Theaters will celebrate March 27 World Theater Day with 8 plays that will be staged free of charge. Free tickets can be purchased from the box offices, the City Theaters website and mobile application, and the Biletinial platform starting from 20:11.00 on Wednesday, March XNUMXth.
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) City Theaters will bring together Istanbulites with free plays on March 27, World Theater Day. 8 plays to be performed on the Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul, Kağıthane Sadabad, Üsküdar Musahipzade Celal, Ümraniye, Gaziosmanpaşa, Üsküdar Kerem Yılmazer and Museum Gazhane Square stages can be watched free of charge with registrations starting on March 20. Free game invitations will be available at the box office on Wednesday, March 20 at 11.00:XNUMX. https://sehirtiyatrolari.ibb.istanbul/ and Biletinial.com and from the City Theaters mobile application.
On Wednesday, March 27, 2024, Hamlet at Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage, An Enemy of the People at Kağıthane Sadabad Stage, Witch Cauldron at Üsküdar Musahipzade Celal Stage, Round Trip Moscow (Retro) at Ümraniye Stage, Moon, Carmela at Gaziosmanpaşa Stage! , Üsküdar Kerem Yılmazer Stage, I am not Medea, Museum Gazhane Prof. Dr. Bedroom Comedy at Sevda Şener Stage and Zehir at Museum Gazhane Meydan Stage will be performed free of charge.
The plays to be staged and their themes are as follows:
Hamlet
Master director Engin Alkan brings this play of Shakespeare, which has a rightful place among the world classics, to the audience with a different interpretation. Hamlet, the most famous work in the history of theater, which brings to the stage the all-time contradictions of man between life and death, between power and revenge, between thought and action, turns into a striking remembrance viewed from the present with a contemporary reading under the direction of Engin Alkan.
In the play written by William Shakespeare, translated by Sabahattin Eyüboğlu and directed by Engin Alkan, Müslüm Tamer, Doğan Altınel, Seda Çavdar, Elçin Atamgüç, Zeliha Bahar Çebi, Zafer Kırşan, Hira Ogeday Erkut, Ersin Bağcıoğlu, Göksel Arslan, Destan Batmaz, Osman Kaba, Emre Ertunç, Cihat Faruk Sevindik, Doğan Şirin, Oğuzhan Oğuz, Hüseyin Emre Şen, Deran Özgen are starring.
An Enemy of the People
Receiving a result that justified his suspicions from his research on thermal springs, the only source of income in the city, Dr. Stockman's struggle, with Ibsen's strong pen, turns into a "parable" about the transformation of what is considered to be the "good of the people" in the prism of interest.
In the play written by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Dilek Başak Carelius and directed by Orhan Alkaya, Barış Çağatay Çakıroğlu, Burçak Çöllü, Cem Baza, Derya Yıldırım, Gökhan Mete, Hakan Arlı, Hazal Uprak, Mert Tanık, Müge Akyamaç, Rahmi Elhan, Tankut Yıldız takes part.
Witch Cauldron
Year 1692… The town of Salem in the USA… People accused of witchcraft… Courts leading to great controversy, then torture, and finally executions… 'People' who drag people to death by 'lists' for their interests... Using faith; The 'heads' who first try to destroy social life, then the law, and finally dignity, and the people who choose to cause it or remain spectators… This immortal work, written in 1952 by Arthur Miller, one of the most important names in theatrical literature, based on real events; greets its audience from the City Theater for the first time.
In the play written by Arthur Miller, translated by Sabahattin Eyüboğlu-Vedat Günyol and directed by Yiğit Sertdemir, Berfu Aydoğan, Berna Adıgüzel, Burak Davutoğlu, Canan Kübra Birinci, Ece Bağcı, Emre Çağrı Akbaba, Eraslan Sağlam, Ersin Sanver, Ezgim Kılınç, Fatma İnan, İbrahim Can, Mehmet Bulduk, Nilay Yazıcıoğlu, Onur Demircan, Ozan Gözel, Rozet Hubeş, Selçuk Yüksel, Selen Nur Sarıyar, Zeki Yıldırım are starring.
Round Trip Moscow (Retro)
Nikolai Mikhailovich Chmutin, who started to live with his daughter and son-in-law in Moscow after the death of his wife, wants to go to his village in the hope of living a quiet and peaceful life. His daughter Ludmilla, who thinks that her father cannot live alone in the village, and her son-in-law, Leonid, are making plans to marry him. Leonid invites three lonely women to his house, hoping that Chmutin will choose one of them as a wife. Plans get mixed up when all three bride-to-be come home at the same time.
Written by Alexander Galin, translated by Hale Kuntay and directed by Engin Gürmen, the play stars Aybar Taştekin, Ayşe Nurseli Tırışkan Akpınar, Esra Ülger, Hikmet Körmükçü, Mahperi Mertoğlu, Zihni Göktay.
Oh, Carmela!
In the play, which tells about the period of civil war between Nationalists and Republicans in Spain, two variety actors, Carmela and Paulino, are taken hostage by the Nationalists led by Franco. They are forced into a demonstration they do not want by the Nationalists celebrating the occupation of the city of Belchite. The war they are in as a result of this pressure, their questioning of art and the artist with the question "should a show be done or not?", and the rebellions, ups and downs, and losses of these two actors who aim to make people laugh and entertain as part of their job are told. Written by Jose Sanchis Sinisterra, translated by Yalçın Baykul and directed by Naşit Özcan, the play stars Ada Alize Ertem, Çağatay Palabıyık and Yunus Erman Çağlar.
I'm Not Medea
In the play "I am not Medea", we see a woman, who has recently been called a "murderer", manipulates the show and the audience on the theater stage, directing them to her own story and, in fact, to each woman's own truth. Written by Allison Gregory and directed by Hülya Karakaş, the play stars Şirin Asutay, Berrin Koper, Kamer Karabektaş and Ozan Akif Serman.
Bedroom Comedy
The play reveals the intertwined lives of four couples at different stages of their marriage, with an unusual but funny look. The concept of marriage is scrutinized by going beyond traditional and conventional patterns and rules, through the relationships of couples that have been shaken and re-established for strange reasons.
Written by Alan Ayckbourn, translated by Mert Dilek and directed by Ali Gökmen Altuğ, the play stars Aslıhan Kandemir, Ayşen Sezerel, Buket Kubilay, Engin Gürmen, Gökçer Genç, Mert Aykul, Nurdan Kalınağa, Özgür Atkın.
Poison
The couple, who separated after a tragic loss in the past, are forced to come together years later. This meeting turns into a painful showdown of the past. The missing pieces of how the other party feels, too, fall into place. The work, which focuses on the point of view of the world of women and men, has been translated into many languages after its Dutch premiere.
Sevinç Erbulak, Ahmet Saraçoğlu, Aslıhan Kandemir, Eraslan Sağlam star in the play written by Lot Vekemans, translated and directed by Şaban Ol.