2nd Yeni Metin Yeni Tiyatro Festivali – this years’ theme of New Text New Theatre is
“Borders”
Dates for the Workshop
May 24 Fri 10.30 – 16.30 May 25 Sat 10.30 – 16.30 May 26 Sun 10.30 – 16.30
Workshop by Ricci/Forte: Beneath the Roses
New Text New Theatre Festival which is going to be executed by GalataPerform for the second time between May 20-26 entertains Ricci/Forte whom have considerably been debated in the recent years. This year’s theme of New Text New Theatre is: ‘Borders’. Proof readings, discussions and workshops of the first plays of novel playwrights will be carried out throughout the festival. The international guests of the festival are the divergent cronies Ricci/Forte.
Ricci/Forte who represent the Italian Contemporary Theatre in the international festivals with their own plays: “Macadamia Nut Brittle”, “Grimmless”, “%100 Furious”, “Abbastarduna”, “Pinter’s Anatomy” and “Imitation of Death” will be in İstanbul between May 23-27. In the New Text New Theatre Festival, “Macadamia Nut Brittle” is going to be presented as reading theatre; “Grimmless” will be played as a video; Ricci/Forte will realize a workshop called ‘’Beneath the Roses”. The workshop is available only for 20 participants and will be in Galata Hamursuz Fırını between 10.30-16.30 during May 24-25-26. The workshop will last 3 days and present a challenge to the players both physically and psychologically focusing on body, voice, and courage. Stated by them very concisely: ‘No more stories about characters, or events to be worn such clothes in a sale of Zara and H&M but fragments, our pure and simple skin to be removed to reveal the ferocity of our fallibility: a search of the tumults of our passions, understood as an escape from any gag of role.’
The workshop will be in Italian and consecutively translated into Turkish Contact: Ferdi Çetin, yenimetinyenitiyatro@galataperform.com, 00 90 506 453 07 37
24 May 2013 , FRIDAY at 19:00
When in Rome & Language
(Staged Play-Reading)
When in Rome (7:00PM)
Written by: Öznur Şahin Directed by: Mesut Arslan Performers: Murat Karasu, Özden Çiftçi, Pervin Bağdat, Arda ÇetinkayaThe boyfriend of a young woman who lives with her landlady in the same apartment, comes to stay with her for a short time. The young woman, Ayşen, has to hide this situation which her family knows from her neighbours. A jail-like life begins for her as the situation gets more complicated. The play discusses the notion of conservatism in the borders of private life and introduces an extraordinary point of view to an ordinary life by striking a blow at reality. ‘When in Rome’ is a critical comedy having the rhythym of vodvil.
Language (8:30PM)
Written by: Şenay Tanrıvermiş Directed by: Yeşim Özsoy Gülan Performers: Yeşim Ceren Bozoğlu, Şirvan Akan, Yağız Can KonyalıA modern flat where a middle-class family lives, the day is like today. Arzu lost one of a pair of Marrylou mitt made of silk cashmere and is incessantly in search of it. What a weird country this is! Everything and everybody continuously disappear. ‘Language’ talks about the daily life of a social class which is about to disappear, from a grotesque perspective. The play mixes the colloquial language with the register of politics and scents out the loss in a fantastic atmosphere. ‘Language’ has a very keen understanding of humour and introduces a brand new and brave perspective to the field of playwriting.
25 May 2013, SATURDAY at 13:00
No:2/1 & HSKTR & Housetop
(Play-Reading)
*There will be a discussion with the playwrights after the performances
No:2/1 (1:00PM)
Written by: Duygu Süreyya Yalçın Directed by: Yusuf Demirkol Performers: Bertan Dirikolu, Emre Yetim, İnci Nur Daşdemir, Şafak ErsözlüThe government authorities announce that the ones who are older than 70 are going to be killed. They raid houses and take old people. The streets witness genocides. Everybody should give the old in their houses in charge of the government authorities. All descents living with their parents undergo a very hard examination. ‘No:2/1’, an experimentation on dystopia which does not forget the reality of Turkey, is a conflict between father and son wandering around the borders between hatred and conscience.
HSKTR (3:00PM)
Written by: Doğu Polat Directed by: Beyti Engin Performers: Emrah Eren, Bekir Çiçekdemir, Ozan Ayhan, Ali Kil, Bulut Akkale, Arzu AkınYoung clerk secretary comes to judicial court on the first day of his career but nothing is as he has imagined. All of a sudden, he finds himself in a court case in which he is being judged. As he speaks more and more, his speech turns into an exhibit against himself. Consequently, he is accused of being a terrorist in an organization called HSKTR. ‘HSKTR’ reminds us of a burlesque in folk tradition both in language and content. It also proposes a staging rehearsal between genres thanks to its grotesque atmosphere.
Housetop (5:00PM)
Written by: Buket Ketbağa Directed by: Ayşe Lebriz Berkem Performers: Tansu Biçer, Devrim Evin, Nergiz AcarSedat opens the doors of his house to Ömer whom he does not know well. Ömer is previously a court officer, Sedat a lawyer. They promote their relations in a way that they turn the necessary borders of social life upside down as well as testing the borders of private life in the same house. ‘Dam’, re-handles the relationship between property and power from a humanist perspective.
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