Sandpit

Lessons on Staying as Children for Grown-ups: Sandpit!

The Boy and Girl who meet at the “Sandpit” do something they never did in the world they created outside of the realities of life. They open up to each other. The Boy who expresses himself in a “Batman” language by playing warrior and the Girl who always walks around with her doll, learn to come together in a fairy tale atmosphere.

The Boy and Girl learn how to face the consequences of their decisions when they are kids and do not have any ideas of maturity. When life seems to in an ordinary fashion, the Boy and Girl grow up and the game “Sandpit” they used to play becomes a symbol of the childhood and innocence they lost. This meeting is perhaps the “first” of the many relationships and breakups they will experience their entire lives.

While examining the forms of communication of human existence, Michal Walczak emphasises the lack of communication between the modern man and woman, social norms, roles, patterns, sex discrimination using a humorous language and tells an innocent story that does not belong to any religion, place or time that has existed in any place at any point in time through Love. Enignay Gültekin who you might recognize from your television screens directs this play. Gültekin presents the play with a simple direction while keeping the naïve feeling of the story.

Writer: Michal Walczak
Translator: Hakan Koçyiğit
Director: Enginay Gültekin
Music: Tolga Çebi
Lightning Design: Yüksel Aymaz
Assistant Director: Fitnat Budak
Set Design: Fitnat Budak, Koray Doğan
Art Consultant: Ahmet Sami Özbudak
General Art Director: Yeşim Özsöy