Distance

Written by: Kristofer Grønskag
Translator: Ferdi Çetin
Directed by: Yelda Baskın
Cast: Bedir Bedir, Defne Şener Günay, Doğuş Can Uzun
Genre: Play Reading & Interview

About the Play
Somewhere in Europe an ice cream truck is speeding down a shopping street. There are people walking around and the truck is speeding towards them.

Distance focuses on human lives, existence, relationships and the human search for meaning around a shocking and traumatic event. A couple in a hotel room overlooking the city from above, a woman returning from a party in a taxi, an archaeologist and a scientist meeting at the edge of the world, and a woman sitting alone on a sidewalk with blood on the back of her sweater waiting for a call from her lover…

Three shots are fired and the person sitting in the driver’s seat of that ice cream truck starts running.

About the Writer – Kristopher Blindheim Gronskag
Kristofer Grønskag (1984) is a Norwegian playwright. His work has been translated into twelve languages and is frequently performed both in Norway and internationally. His work has led to several nominations and awards, including winning the prestigious Jugendtheaterpreis Baden-Württemberg, being longlisted for the Deutscher Kindertheaterpreis and Deutscher Jugendtheaterpreis, as well as receiving two nominations for the Ibsen Prize. He has been associated with several theaters as a dramaturg, translator and artistic consultant. He has also worked as a lecturer at several universities. His most performed titles include Satellites in the Night-Sky, Counting to Zero, Kinder K, The Beloved and Distance.

About the Director – Yelda Baskın
In 2002, she graduated from Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory Theater Department. In 2011, she completed her master’s degree at Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Cinema. Between 2001-2004, she acted in the plays titled “Chaos”, “Servants”, “After”, “Abandon” in the Studio Drama Theater Group. In 2003, she started working as an actress at Bakırköy Municipality Theater. In the 2010-2011 theater season, she directed the play “Civilized State: Woman”, which was a first in Bakırköy Municipality Theaters. With the play “Civilized Woman”, she was nominated for the 2011 Theater Magazine Awards for the director of the year. In the 2014-2015 theater season, she was awarded the best actress award by Ekin Yazın Dostları Theater Awards for her role in the play “Hizmetçiler”. In 2006, she was one of the founders of the theater collective “Oyun Deposu”. She worked as a writer-performer in Oyun Deposu’s plays “Çirkin İnsan Yavrusu” (2007) and “Aptal, Sıradan ve Suçlu” (2010) and participated in festivals abroad. In addition, the play “Ugly Human Kitten”, in which he was one of the actors and writers, was published in German in the June issue of “Theaterheute 2010”. One of her last plays, the musical play “Fosforlu Cevriye” by Istanbul City Theaters, received many awards at the Afife Theater Awards.

Venue: DasDas Open Stage
Date: Sunday, December 3rd
Time: 16:00
The event is free of charge.

**This event is supported by the Embassy of Norway.