Don’t Stay “Alien” to the Theatre!
New Text New Theatre Festival 7 is beginning!
4-7 October
Stage Readings, Interviews and Events
New Text New Theatre Festival 7 will be held between the dates of October 4-7 2018, with the cooperation of GalataPerform, French Cultural Centre, Swiss Consulate General, Norwegian Consulate General, Taşra Kabare A Corner in the World and bomontiada ALT.
The opening of the festival will take place on October 4, at the French Cultural Centre in Istanbul. Mark Levitas will direct the reading of French playwright David Leon’s “Escape”.
The festival’s international and local programme will continue at bomontiada ALT. On October 5, Sanem Öge will direct the reading of Swiss playwright Dimen Abdulla’s “Revolution” and on October 6, Onur Karaoğlu. will direct the reading of Norwegian playwright Finn Iunker’s “Helen”.
The plays of this year’s writers of the New Text New Theatre Workshops will take place on 5-6-7 October. Aslı Ceren Bozatlı, Tülin Ulutürk, Zeynep Kıymacı, Banu Solak, Şengül Can, Ömer Kaçar and Erdi Işık are among the writers whose plays will be read this year. While experienced names such as Ahmet Sami Özbudak, Murat Mahmutyazıoğlu, Ayşe Lebriz Berkem, Cemal Toktaş, Ersin Umut Güler and Tuğrul Tülek are directing the stage readings, new director Arzu Suriçi who studied in the New Text New Theatre Directing Workshop joins them.
Unlike other years, this year a special project that came out from the ALT Lounge Directing and Scriptwriting Workshops in bomontiada; VantaBlack will debut. In addition, the Kahvaltıda Tiyatro Company will take place on Sunday, October 7 in bomontiada ALT.
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.