Manager

Written by: Malin Axelsson
Translator: Ali Arda
Directed by: Mert Öner
Cast: Şirin Kılavuz Uşun, Aybar Taştekin, Gizem Güçlü, Hazal Uprak, Umur Berk Seven
Genre: Play Reading

About the Play
The Manager is an absurd, funny and dark office drama about our deepest desires. A surrealist depiction of contemporary life in the language of management. About bodies and costumes, about dominating and being dominated. And about pornographic mail, terrible powerpoint presentations and staff meetings from hell.

Newly appointed middle manager Jenny longs for something disruptive and wants to realize her lofty visions in the big company. But she is soon drawn into almost incomprehensible power games in the rigid management hierarchy. Like a bloody mafia, executives shuttle between the lunch restaurant and the boardrooms, while emotions, flesh and strife erupt from the dark depths of the company that don’t fit the templates and systems she has to work with. What Jenny, a talented middle manager, doesn’t realize is that she will be the cause of her own downfall, dirty and messy.

About the Writer – Malin Axelsson
Playwright, author and director born in Stockholm 1975. Artistic director and head of Riksteatern barn och unga (2021-present) Swedish Radio Drama (2015-2019) and ung scen/öst (2009-2015). Graduated from the Swedish University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre in 2002, and has been translated into German, French, Italian, Rumanian and Norwegian.

About the Director – Mert Öner
Born on July 20, 1983 in Istanbul, Mert Öner graduated from Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Performing Arts, Department of Acting in 2006. He completed his master’s degree at Bahçeşehir University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Culture Policy and Art Management in 2012. He has appeared as an actor in many TV series. He continues his theater career as an actor and director. Some of the plays he has acted in are Pragma, Dövüş Gecesi (Fight Night), İyi Şeyler Olacak Diye Düşün (Think Good Things Will Happen), Prudencia Hart ve Bir Tuhaf Dibe Vurma Öyküsü (Prudencia Hart and A Strange Bottoming Story). The plays he worked as a director are; Sesin Resmi (The Picture of the Voice), Çıkışa Gel (Come to the Exit), Limon Limon Limon Limon Limon Limon, Kul, Kenardakiler ve Burada (On the Edge and Here). Bugün… (Today…)

Venue: DasDas Open Stage
Date: Sunday, December 3rd
Time : 20:30
The event is free of charge.

*This event is supported by the Consulate General of Sweden and the Swedish Arts Council.