New Text New Theatre Festival 4

Play Readings, Interviews and Events

The New Text New Theatre Festival 4 will be held between 10-14 June this year in cooperation with the French Cultural Center and GalataPerform. The festival begins with the reading of the play “Cats Like Me” written by this year’s special guest, French playwright and novelist, Olivia Rosenthal. The opening party of the festival will be held in Karaköy Unter, on June 11. The readings of the plays written by new playwrights as part of the workshop and interviews will take place in GalataPerform.

Eight plays written by playwright aspirants will be read by professional actors. Yeşim Özsoy, Ayşe Lebriz Berkem, Hümay Güldağ, Murat Mahmutyazıcıoğlu, Ahmet Sami Özbudak, Yusuf Demirkol, Lerzan Pamir, Berfin Zenderlioğlu and Burak Safa Çalış will be directing the readings.

The stage readings of the eight plays that are chosen from among the plays written as part of the workshops will take place on 12-13-14 June at GalataPerform and will be read by Metin Belgin, Pınar Göktaş, Ceren Demirel, Şebnem Köstem, Sezgi Mengi, Batur Belirdi, Akant Çetin, Devrim Nas, Selin Tekman, Zehra Bilgin, Evrim Doğan, İbrahim Halaçoğlu, Murat Mahmutyazıcıoğlu, Kubilay Karslıoğlu, Elif Ongan Tekçe, Murat Kapu, Nazlı Bulum, Deniz Özerman, Tuğçe Altuğ, Barış Gönenen, Ceylan Dizdar, Güçlü Yalçıner, Güliz Gençoğlu, Defne Koldaş, Ushan Çakır, Akasya Aslıtürkmen and Abdullah Köksal.

The festival that has the distinction of being the first Scriptwriting Festival in Turkey, while once again presenting original texts to audiences and theatre professionals, sparks new discussions, exchange of ideas and mobility by conducting Q&A’s after each play with the writers and directors.