Emre Koyuncuoğlu

“İçtima-i Hakiki”, “Hedda Gabler”

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İçtima-i Hakiki

Artist presentation
Site Specific Theatre
30′
April 5th 2012, Thursday | 17.30
Eminönü Ali Paşa Han

For the sake of the mimesis of the current political existence, we are interested in the concept of “thinking actor/actress” beyond the actor/actress who creates and performs. What kind of an action would the reality, which is formed between the audience and the actor/actress, generate? And how can this action be materially transferred into the political arena? We laid the significant shift in the Middle East known as “The Arab Spring” on the table. In Arabic, “İçtima-i Hakiki” is used for the stars which line up with equal distance between each and a direct translation would mean “The Real Gathering”. Our gathering will be realized altogether with the intellectuals, journalists, artists from various disciplines and participants who have come to watch us on the “social media” network and a preferred venue with the recordings of the body language and video-art, of the multimedia and of the sounds as action will have the first priority.

Written (Adapted to Stage) and Directed by Emre Koyuncuoğlu

Set and Lighting Design Cem Yılmazer

Dramaturgy Başak Erzi

Music Selda Öztürk, Burcu Yankın

Visuals and Visual Design Yasemin Nur, Evrensel Belgin

Performers Şebnem Köstem, Murat Garibağaoğlu, Çağlar Yiğitoğulları, Uskan Çelebi, Senem Oluz, Pınar Demiral, Eraslan Sağlam

Consultants Işın Eliçin, Ece Temelkuran, Ömer Madra

Guest Artists Mihran Tomasyan, Hasan Uzma, Mustafa Kaplan, Nilüfer Alptekin

Assistant Directors Pınar Demiral, Burcu Tokuç, Yetkin Yüksel

Texts “Les Justes” by Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus” by Albert Camus, “Time for Outrage” by Stephane Hessel, “The New Public Faces of Islam” by Nilüfer Göle, “Disordered World” by Amin Maalouf, “Imagine Sisyphus as a Happy Person” by Ömer Madra, “Intellectual” by Edward Said, “Orientalism” by Edward Said.

With the co-production of ÇGSM & Istanbul Theater Festival.

Istanbul Municipality Theaters – Contemporary Performing Arts Center (ÇGSM) is founded in November 2010. Emre Koyuncuoğlu, who also works as a director at the Istanbul Municipality Theaters is in charge of the organization. The main objective of ÇGSM, is to follow the contemporary theatre both in Turkey and in the international arena and to develop projects, workshops and educational programs in order to share the experience and the outcomes with actors, dancers and performance artists. ÇGSM acts with the motivation of constituting agenda for the Turkish theatre, bringing up suggestions, carrying out and leading the way to innovative works, promoting contemporary theatre and the avant-garde, establishing cooperation with different theatre groups and institutions, conducting studies on the interaction of the traditional and modern, all of which in turn aims at producing and presenting projects both nationwide and in the international arena.

Hedda Gabler

Work in progress
Theatre
30′
April 6th 2012, Friday | 11.30
İBBŞT Üsküdar Musahipzade Celal Theatre

Hedda Gabler, who has chosen a life sheltered by the assurances of the bourgeoisie, has compromised a lot in order to choose stability and has refused to live a life of love and productivity. She has married as a result of boredom, not of love. Her husband is a decent man but is not a remarkable academic person. One day, she runs into her ex-lover with whom he has lived a passionate affair but refused to go on because of his hazardous life. Now, he is about to publish a great book and afflict Hedda’s husband’s academic position, with the support of a simple girl that Hedda despised at school.

Written by Henrik Ibsen

Directed by Emre Koyuncuoğlu

Translation Emre Koyuncuoğlu, Başak Erzi

Dramaturgy Dilek Tekintaş

Set and Costume Design Gamze Kuş

Lighting Design Cem Yılmazer

Music Çiğdem Borucu Erdoğan

Performers Şebnem Köstem, Ertuğrul Postoğlu, Meriç Benlioğlu, Eraslan Sağlam, Mert Tanık, Alev Oraloğlu, Elçin Atamgüç

Assistant Directors Başak Erzi, Çağlar Polat, Nihat Alpteki

Istanbul Municipality Theaters (IMT), Turkey’s oldest theatre institution running continuously since its establishment, was founded in 1914 as “Darülbedayi-i Osmani” (The Ottoman House of Beauty). The Municipality Theater, when taking into consideration the changes in Turkish Theatre in recent years, and a broad repertoire of local and foreign authors, has opened its curtains to audiences in Istanbul as well as theatre lovers in other Turkish cities through tours. It also presents plays to audiences by inviting international directors and theatre actors to Turkey. Today, the Municipality Theaters, which have ten stages, accommodating about two thousands spectators each day. These are as follows: Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Theatre, Kadıköy Haldun Taner Theatre, Fatih Reşat Nuri Theatre, Gaziosmanpaşa Theatre, Gaziosmanpaşa Ferih Egemen Children’s Theatre, Üsküdar Musahipzade Celal Theatre, Üsküdar Kerem Yılmazer Theatre, Kağıthane Sadabad Theatre, Kağıthane Küçük Kemal Children’s Theatre and Ümraniye Theatre.

Emre Koyuncuoğlu, born in 1966 in Istanbul, works in different theatres in various cities in and abroad as director, choreographer, playwright and performance artist. Her plays, produced independently or as productions of different theatres or staged as international co-productions, have been invited to many renowned festivals and theatres in Germany, France, Britain, the Netherlands, Romania, Cyprus, Tunisia, Belgium, Portugal, Macedonia, etc. various times. Her play Irk Bitig which is a sound theatre play, won the 2009 best Play Price in the International Strumica Theatre Festival. Lastly, she did an adaptation from G. E. Lessing’s Nathan the Wise as Nathan Schweigt (“Nathan is Still”) for Freiburg City Theatre and directed it with the actors from the company.