Stupid, Ordinary & Guilty
Theatre
45′
April 5th 2012, Thursday | 15.00
SAHNE Kadir Has University
With Surtitles in English
Copyright Tunç Erenkuş
“NONE OF THEM HAD SO MUCH FUN UP TILL NOW”
Three women in the kitchen! They are talking with each other, it’s nothing but a casual, useless chat… Which is never ever recorded by the history, art, theatre plays or whatever!
Three women who are having fun together in a kitchen which buries the traditional representation of the “womanhood”, test their courage to exist on the stage along with their empty moments which seem to be inconsistent regarding the distinction between theory and practice.
Ceren Ercan
Concept oyun deposu (Baskın, Ceranoğlu, Ercan, Uğurlu, Ürse)
Director Maral Ceranoğlu
Stage and Lighting Design Cem Yılmazer
Production oyun deposu, 2010
Creative Team & Performers Yelda Baskın, Gülce Uğurlu, Elif Ürse
oyun deposu
In 2007, 5 women artists, Elif Ürse, Ceren Ercan, Yelda Baskın, Gülce Uğurlu and Maral Ceranoğlu initiated “oyun deposu” with the aim of finding a place for what’s contemporary in Turkey in the theatre stage. The collective, at their first play Çirkin İnsan Yavrusu / Ugly Human-ling, chose to follow the traces of composed polarization in Turkey’s political ground and it’s effects on daily life. The play was written around the idea of questionize the outsiders of this country and what they are exposed to and it set out with three women, a Kurdish woman, a headscarfed woman and a homosexual woman. oyun deposu is creating their own texts, with this first work won the Lions Public Jury Award for Most Unique Theatre Play of the year.
oyun deposu played Çirkin İnsan Yavrusu in cities like Bern, Zürih, Basel, Vienna (Wiener Festwochen), Gratz, Strasbourg (Festival Premieres), Berlin (Hebbel Theater), Wiesbaden (New Plays From Europe), Mülheim (Theater a.d. Ruhr), and the play have been translated in English, German and French. The play’s text have been published by Germany’s most significant theatre magazine Theater Heute.
The collective, with their second play, Aptal, Sıradan ve Suçlu / Stupid, Ordinary and Guilty, have opened a discussion on woman sexuality and questioned the common “womanhood” values. Female actresses played the “women” with the aim to make this performance a face off both for the collective and the audience. The play has been invited to the significant theatre festivals in cities like Hamburg (Thalia Theater), Vienna (Volks Theater) and Heidelberg (Stückemarkt). Stupid, Ordinary and Guilty is still taking the stage in İstanbul, at Çıplak Ayaklar Studio.
Maral Ceranoğlu
Born in 1980, Maral Ceranoğlu has graduated from the Modern Dance Department of the Mimar Sinan State Conservatory in Istanbul. She also had her masters degree from the same department in 2004. During her studies she attended to festivals and workshops in Europe and America. Since 2000 she has been teaching movement classes for actors in different acting schools in Turkey. Between 2002-2009, she had been teaching contemporary dance technics, composition and repertory at the department she graduated. She choreographes and organises movement structure for theatre plays since 2002 and she has been working with the theatre director Işıl Kasapoğlu. She has been a part of Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası (Çıplak Ayaklar Dance Company) since its establishment.
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Gülce Uğurlu
Born in 1977 in Istanbul and has graduated from the Theatre Department of the State Conservatory of the Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul. After that she performed Oyunun Oyunu (Noises Off) at the Kenter Theatre, she left the Theatre Department of the Mimar Sinan University where she was having her masters degree and working as a research assistant, and she focused on her acting career at the Bakırköy Municipality Theatre. She involved in writing and acted in Ugly Human-ling and Stupid, Ordinary and Guilty. She is one of the founders of the free theatre collective oyun deposu and she still works as an actress at the Bakırköy Municipality Theatre and giving “writing classes” in Theatre Department of the State Conservatory of the Mimar Sinan University.
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Elif Ürse
Graduated form Theatre Department of the State Conservatory of the Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul in 2002. From 2001 to 2004, she worked as an actress by the free theatre company Stüdyo Drama where she has performed in the plays Kaos (“Chaos”) by Onur Bayraktar, Hizmetçiler (The Maids) by Jean Genet, Sonra (“Then“) and Terk (“Abandonment“) again by Onur Bayraktar. In the 2003-2004 theatre season she began to work at the Bakırköy Municipality Theatre in Istanbul where she has performed in such plays as Kadınlar Da Savaşı Yitirdi (The Women Lost the War Too) by Curzio Malaparte, Teneke (“Tin“), Sezuan’ın İyi İnsanı (The Good Person of Sezuan) by Bertolt Brecht and Kadife Çiçekleri (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigold) by Paul Zindel. She is one of the founders of the free theatre company oyun deposu, involved in writing and acted in Ugly Human-ling and Stupid, Ordinary and Guilty. She still works as an actress at the Bakırköy Municipality Theatre.
Yelda Baskın
Between 1997-2002 she has studied at the Theatre Department of the State Conservatory of the Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul. From 2001 to 2004, she worked as an actress by the free theatre company Stüdyo Drama where she has performed in the plays Kaos (“Chaos”) by Onur Bayraktar, Hizmetçiler (The Maids) by Jean Genet, Sonra (“Then“) and Terk (“Abandonment“) again by Onur Bayraktar. In the 2003-2004 theatre season she began to work at the Bakırköy Municipality Theatre in Istanbul where she has performed in such plays as Kadınlar Da Savaşı Yitirdi (The Women Lost the War Too) by Curzio Malaparte, Teneke (“Tin“) which was based on a novel by Yaşar Kemal and Tersine Dünya (“World Upside Down“) which was based on a novel by Orhan Kemal. In 2011 she directed the “Play Writing Workshop” and the resulting play in the workshop Medeni Hali: Kadın / Marital Status: Woman. She did her MA in Film Theory at the Film Department of The Faculty of Communication at The Marmara University between 2009-2011. She is one of the founders of the free theatre company oyun deposu, involved in writing and acted in Ugly Human-ling and Stupid, Ordinary and Guilty. She still works as an actress at the Bakırköy Municipality Theatre.
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Ceren Ercan
Born in 1981 Ceren Ercan graduated from Istanbul University Theatre criticism and Dramaturgy department in 2003. She has been doing her master degree on cinema. She has been working as dramaturg in Bakırköy Municipality Theatre since 2003. She has been the coordinator of the project “New Text New Theatre” in Galata Perform. She is also dramaturge in Ve Diğer Şeyler Topluluğu Theatre Group. She is one of the founders of the theatre group oyun deposu. The play which was written by her in Grec Theatre Festival in Spain has been translated in Catalan and presented. She has participated in a workshop that has been directed by Simon Stephens within the same festival. She has been directing a project on play writing in Bakırköy Municipality Theatre. She has been still working in different projects on play writing. Her critiques have been published in different publications like Time Out, Oyun. In Summer 2011, she went to Kadmos Travel, organized by Avignon Festival, as a guest artist supported by IKSV.
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