New Text New Theatre Festival 1

The “New Text New Theatre Festival 1”, a gift of the “New Text New Theatre Project” to the theatre world, which has been run by the And Other Thing Company since 2006, meets audiences on 28-29 April 2012 on the Kadir Has University stage with the involvement of names such as Murat Daltaban, Zeynep Aksoy, Akasya Funda Eryiğit, Bernard Garnier, Dr Selen Korad Birkiye, Emmanuel Daumas.

New Text New Theatre; consisting of reading scripts of young writers, interviews and their plays, the “New Text New Theatre Festival 1”, which is the product of 4-month long workshops with the theme of “disaster”, hosts many famous names, both domestic and international.

While Jale Karakekir, Sibel Arslan Yeşilay, Kemal Başar, Görkem Sarkan join to direct the play readings of “New Text New Theatre Festival 1”, the actors who will be reading are Defne Halman, Deniz Elmas, Rukiye Yenigül, Evren Erler, Gökhan Bozkurt, Merve Engin, Serkan Altıntaş, Reha Özcan, Evrim Şahintürk, Esme Madra, Funda Eryiğit and Ulaş Tuna Astepe.

The plays “Train”, “Dark”, “Four-Legged Thing” which were chosen by the New Text New Theatre team, are acted out by Defne Şener Günay, Ayhan Aktaş, Başak Doğan, Duygu Dalyanoğlu, Nezih Cihan Aksoy, Ceren Demirel and Ercüment Acar while Emrah Eren, Metin Göksel and famous French director Emmanuel Daumas directs them.

In the festival which is continued with interviews, some of the names who will be talking on the subject of “Disaster and Representational” are Assoc. Prof. Beliz Güçbilmez, Murat Daltaban, writer Süreyya Evren, journalist Zeynep Aksoy, the guest speakers who will be talking about “Modern Playwriting in Europe” are actor Bernard Garnier, translator Laurent Muhleise and dramaturg Dr. Selen Korad Birkiye.

Organised by the And Other Things Company, the “New Text New Theatre Festival 1” meets with the audience on the Kadir Has University stage, on 28-29 April 2012. It is sponsored the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Culture Directorate and is supported by the Open Society Institute, French Cultural Centre and Cervantes Institute.