orient express season
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orient express season
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Booking and prices Theatre tickets:
£13 full price, £9 concs. Except Nathalie & Ben Anadolu £15, no concs. Pay what you can on Tuesdays, No concs. on Saturdays.
Gallery Entry: Free
Film Screenings: £5
Orient Express nights: £5
Orient Express foyer music sessions: Free
Karagöz shadow puppetry: £7 adults £5 children
Book online at www.arcolatheatre.com Box office: 020 7503 1646
Arcola Theatre, 27 Arcola Street, London, E8 2DJ
Tube: Highbury & Islington, then bus 30 or Liverpool Street, then bus 149
Rail: Dalston Kingsland Station (North London Line) Bus: 30, 38, 67, 76, 149, & 243
All events are wheelchair accessible.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of: West Hackney Parochial Charities
Cover image by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
BARING FOUNDATION
Arcola Theatre is a Regularly Funded Organisation of Arts Council England
An international season of theatre, music, dance, film, photography and painting from Turkey 29 April – 7 July 2007
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When Arcola Theatre was founded in September 2000, we were very aware of the need to establish ourselves as artistically independent. Given the strong Turkish/Kurdish community in Dalston and the Turkish links within the theatre, it was important not to be known just as ‘that Turkish theatre’.
Over the last seven years Arcola Theatre has gone from strength to strength and developed a strong identity both locally and internationally. We have always enjoyed the support of our local community; and now, seven years on, we feel we are able to present our first season of work from Turkey: Orient Express.
The core of the season is two English language plays by writers from Turkey, now living abroad; which are complemented by work from some of Turkey’s finest performers brought direct from Istanbul.
Welcome to the Orient Express Season, a journey seven years in the making.
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Mehmet Ergen Artistic Director
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Arcola Tiyatrosundan Turkiyelilere bir mesaj: Tiyatro bir toplumun olmazsa olmaz değerlerinden biridir; Tiyatro eğitici, eğlendirici ve aydınlatıcıdır. Her kapattığımız tiyatro bizi aydınlıktan karanlığa biraz daha sürükler. Arcola’nın başarısı yerel toplumun verdiği destek olmadan hayal edilemez; Turkiyeli toplumu hep yanımızda hissettik ve bu bize güç kazandırdı. Biz de geliştikçe, kuvvetlendikçe bu desteğe teşekkür amaçlı hizmetler sunmaya çabalıyoruz. Türkçe tiyatro üreten Arcola Ala-Turka ve yeni tiyatro yazarları yetiştiren Arcola oyun yazarları gurubu Türkçe konuşan ilgililere kapılarını açıyor. Çalışma guruplarına katılmak için aşağdaki posta adresine Türkçe yada \nglizce başvurabilirsiniz. Arcola Ala-Turka Grubu alaturka@arcolatheatre.com Oyun Yazarları Grubu writersgroup@arcolatheatre.com
Community Activties:
Arcola Youth Theatre: For 13-19 yearolds. Work with professional actors and directors. To join, text the word ‘youth’ with your name and age to 07931636376 or email youth@arcolatheatre.com
Arcola Ala-Turka: Our Turkish/Kurdish theatre group produces 3 shows per year. If you would like to take part please callin or email alaturka@arcolatheatre.com
Arcola 60+: If you are a Hackney resident and are of retirement age, you are invited to take part in our free writing and drama sessions with professional writers, directors and actors. All levels of experience welcome. To join call-in or email sixtyplus@arcolatheatre.com Arcola Writers Group: Following their first new writing festival at Arcola Theatre in April, the Writers Group will be holding new courses later in the year. To join email writersgroup@arcolatheatre.com
Arcola Tech School: Training in theatre technical skills for people aged 13-19 working with professional sound, lighting and production managers. To join email techschool@arcolatheatre.com
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Müfettiş (in Turkish) [5.30pm] Film - Sadam’s Road to Hell [8pm]
Nathalie (in Turkish) [8pm] Nathalie (in Turkish) [8pm]
Ben Anadolu (in Turkish) [8pm] Ben Anadolu (in Turkish) [8pm] Post show discussion
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nathalie
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Aysa Prodüksiyon Tiyatrosu & Arcola Theatre present:
2 & 3 Mayıs, saat 20:00 Türkçe oynanacak / 2 & 3 May at 8pm / Performed in Turkish
Zuhal Olcay Tilbe Saran
ben anadolu Arcola Theatre & Kent Oyuncuları present
5 & 6 Mayıs, saat 20:00 Türkçe oynanacak / 5 & 6 May at 8pm / Performed in Turkish
Yıldız Kenter
Yazan/Writer: Philippe Blasband
Yazan/Writer: Güngör Dilmen
Yöneten/Director: Işıl Kasapoğlu
Sahne ve Kostüm Tasarımı/ Set & Costume Designer: Osman Sengezer
Çeviren/Translator: Zeynep Avcı Sahne Tasarımı/ Set Designer: Hakan Dündar
Kostüm Tasarımı/ Costume Designer: Canan Göknil
i, anatolia
Yöneten/Director: Yücel Erten
Müzik/Music: Durel Gence
Müzik/Music: Joel Simon
Sonia, an opera singer and her violinist husband live separately. Sonia blames her husband for their separation. She hires Nancy, a prostitute, to seduce her ex husband and report back their relationship.
Belgian writer, film and theatre director Blasband‘s play has also been adapted as a screenplay. The film was directed by Anne Fontaine in 2003, starring Fanny Ardant, Emmanuele Beart and Gerard Depardieu.
Zuhal Olcay and Tilbe Saran are two of the most successful film and theatre stars of Turkey. This is their London debut. Director Işıl Kasapoğlu, one of the most important directors of Turkish theatre also makes his Arcola debut. Opera sanatçısı Sonia ve viyolonsel sanatçısı olan eşi ayrı yaşamaktadırlar. Sonia boşanmaya doğru giden ayrılıklarından eşini sorumlu tutar ve bir hayat kadını olan Nancy’yi kiralar. Nancy’nin işi, Sonia’nın eski kocasını baştan çıkarmak ve bunu Sonia’ya rapor etmektir.
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Belçikalı yazar, sinema ve tiyatro yönetmeni Blasband’in bu oyunu 2003 yılında sinemaya da uyarlanmıştır. Anne Fontaine tarafından yönetilen filmde, Fanny Ardant, Emmanuele Beart, Gerard Depardieu gibi ünlü oyuncular rol almıstır.
Güngör Dilmen, a prominent Turkish author, depicts the history of Anatolia through the perspective of women. The history of Anatolia is explained by several female characters; from the Roman Empress Theodora to the Turkish author Halide Adip Adivar, from Annan Comnena, the first female historian, to Kybele, the fertility goddess of the Hittites.
The play tackles conflicts such as East versus West, Christian versus Muslim as well as the identity problems within cultures. Legendary actress Yıldız Kenter makes her Arcola debut.
Post-show discussion with Yildiz Kenter on Sunday 6th May.
Güngör Dilmen, bu oyunuyla Anadolu tarihini, kadınların bakış açısıyla dile getirmektedir. Irk, din ve kimlik çatışmasını konu alan Ben Anadolu, Roma Imparatoriçesi Theodora’dan yazar Halide Edip Adıvar’a, ilk kadın tarihçi Annan Comnena’dan Hititlerin bereket tanrıçası Kybele’ye varana kadar bir çok kadın karakter üzerinden anlatıyor Anadolu’yu. Efsanevi oyuncu Yıldız Kenter ilk kez Arcola’da.
Söyleşi: 6 Mayıs Pazar, saat 22.00
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silver birch house Arcola Theatre presents
9 May - 9 June 2007 Mon-Sat 8pm WORLD PREMIERE
Writer: Leyla Nazlı
Director: Mehmet Ergen Designer: Neil Irish
Cast: George Antoni, Philip Arditti, Brid Brennan, Rebecca Calder, Mehmet Ali Nuroğlu, Peter Polycarpou, Beatriz Romilly and Bita Taghavi.
“People here have forgotten how to laugh. Their faces are painted with pain. I want to laugh with people. I want to meet real people and have real friends. Smile at whoever I come across. I want to meet with those blood-drinking, child-snatching Caucasians.”
In a remote mountain village in eastern Turkey, against a backdrop of mounting political turmoil, a father clings to the simple life he has created for himself and his family.
Leyla Nazlı is part of the Royal Court Fifty, a group of up and coming writers selected for the 50th Anniversary of the Royal Court Theatre where the play was originally workshopped, with the support of the British Council.
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Post-show discussion on Thursday 31st May with the cast and creative team.
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pera palas Arcola Theatre presents
12 June - 7 July 2007 Mon-Sat 8pm Writer: Sinan H. Ünel Director: Michael Cabot Designer: Jeremy Daker
Cast: Philip Arditti, Rebecca Calder, Jasmina Daniel, Steve Dineen, Christian Flint, Alexander Giles, Helen Johns, Georgina Landau, Beatriz Romilly, George Tardios. Pera Palas, the famous old hotel in Istanbul, is the backdrop for this epic play following three relationships, at three defining moments in Turkish history. From the final days of the Ottoman Empire, through the birth of the Republic, up until the recent Islamic revival, Pera Palas charts the political and cultural changes which have created modern Turkey. Love, identity and acceptance collide in this modern masterpiece.
Sinan H. Ünel, lives and works in the US, his plays have been produced all over the world.
“a piece of virtuoso construction… shows how time changes things and doesn’t… Ünel knows exactly where the flash points are when cultures clash, and he understands the springs of motivation, the aggression and insecurity that turn emigration, internal or external, from personal liberation into a political act.” The Times
“Hugely ambitious…pulses with passion and questing intelligence.” New York Times
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Post-show discussion on Thursday 21st June with the cast and creative team.
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müfettiş
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music, dance & puppetry
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Arcola Ala-Turka Community Drama Group presents
The Government Inspector
Sundays at 5.30pm March 18, 25; April 8, 15, 22, 29; May 13, 20
Performed in Turkish by Arcola Ala-Turka Community Drama Group Her Pazar saat 5.30’da 18, 25 Mart, 8, 15, 22, 29 Nisan, 13, 20 Mayıs 2007
Writer/Yazan: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Translator/Çeviren: Nihal Yalaza Taluy
Gevende
Free music in the foyer May 9 to 16 & June 12 to 20 as well a special events. Artists include: Group Renk on Friday 11th May at 10pm Performers Hüseyin Kaplan, Devrim Göktaş, Genco & Riza Koyupinar singing Turkish, Kurdish & Zaza folk music. Sedat Sarıcı on Saturday 12th May & 16th June at 10pm Playing Turkish folk rock
Designer/Sahne tasarımı: Dora Wade
Halkevi sunar: Koma Sersi on Sunday 13th May at 8pm Traditional Kurdish music and folk dance
Design Assistant/Sahne tasarımı asistanı: Ben Nathan
The Government Inspector ridicules the extensive bureaucracy of government under a thoroughly corrupt system and through this Turkish Language performance, its relevance could not be more clear…
“What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourselves"
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Dünyada olup bitenden haberi olmayan bir grup memuru denetlemeye gelecek olan mufettiş haberi üzerine, tüm kasaba halkının düştüğü çaresiz ve gülünç durumu görün.
Nihavend on Sunday 27th May (Rumi day) at 7pm Inspired by Rumi, in association with www.caravansaray.org TEG sunar: Ali Asker Konseri on Sunday 3rd June at 4pm
Costume/Kostüm: Deniz Ünal ve Yasemin Bay
Operator/Operatör: Cenan Kaya
Cataplasia
Adaptation/Adaptasiyon: Arcola Ala-Turka Oyuncuları
Cast/Oyuncular: Abdullah Tercanlı, Ayşegül Altın, Barış Kanber, Birgul Çakır, Delil Engin, Mehmet Kılıç, Haydar Köyel, Deniz Ünal, Gökmen Güvener, Livia Arditti, Philip Arditti, Özgür Akbaba, Serpil Delice, Tülin Tokgöz, Tuncay Akpınar, Yasemin Bay, Zeynep Demir ve Zeynep Erdoğan Arcola Ala Turka is supported by the Baring Foundation
Sat 19 May, Fri 15 June (feat. Gevende) & Sat 7 July. 9pm until late. London's coolest Orient club night, Orient:Express presents three after-show parties in Arcola’s basement studio, with DJs playing cutting-edge Turkish ethno-electronic mixes and big Balkan sounds, and featuring belly dancers. Live music includes an unmissable direct-from-Istanbul performance from festival-pleasing band Gevende on 15 June. Presented by Kazum! www.kazum.co.uk
Orient Express Foyer Sessions
Sedat Sarıcı
Director/Yöneten: Leyla Nazlı
Gogol's classic satire on human vanity is the story of a penniless nobody from Moscow who is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt and self-seeking officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia.
Orient:Express Nights
Komkar Kurdish Folk Dance on Tuesday 19th June at 10pm
Daniel Vais and The Love Spotters present: Cataplasia - a dance theatre performance.
Monday 17, 18 & 19 May at 7pm Inspired by the Whirling Dervishes, solo & group dance woven together to create an inner world of subtle patterns ß and delicate changes. Cataplasia opens a window to the world of outsiders’ art and allows the audience to enter the pure and creative world of dancers with special needs.
"Daniel Vais & The Love Spotters create happiness" The Irish Times
The Magic Tree
Supported by Daghdha Dance Company with thanks to Mercan Dede and Brian Eno. This performance is part of a European Tour.
The Cengiz Özek Shadow Theatre present
The Magic Tree
Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th June at 1pm, and Monday 11th June at 10am and 2pm One of Turkey’s leading puppet and shadow theatres presents this epic interpretation of the shamanistic characters of the Karagöz plays featuring the authentic instruments of Karagöz, ‘nareke’ and ‘def’.
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readings
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A series of panel discussions on and around the subjects raised by the Orient Express Season.
Free Saturday afternoon readings
The Turkish Diaspora in London: The Next Generation
The Turk Plays
Saturday 26th May at 4pm - Mehmet Ali Dikerdem, Middlesex University (Chair) - Kevin Robins, City University - Nilgün Canver, Councilor for Haringey (invited) - Ferhat Çinar, Social Action for Health
The sixteenth century witnessed the clash of two rival superpowers: the Christian empire of Spain and the Islamic kingdom of the Ottoman Turks. In 1570 when the Turks attacked Christian Cyprus, the West received a shock as powerful as 9/11.
Tolerance & the Philosophy of Rumi
Shocking for their violent racism and hysterical conjecture about the Islamic religion these plays provide a fascinating insight into the panic that gripped early modern England and which has many parallels with the situation today.
The final reading will be followed by a panel discussion exploring the history behind the plays and the legacy of racism towards ‘Turks’ in Europe (see opposite page). Saturday 19th May at 4pm
Soliman and Perseda by Thomas Kyd
By the author of The Spanish Tragedy, this play tells the story of Solyman, a Turkish Sultan who falls in love with Perseda, a Christian girl who has been captured in a Turkish invasion of Rhodes. Saturday 2nd June at 4pm
The Turk by John Mason
Borgias, governor of Florence, plots to murder his wife, marry his niece and seize control of the whole of Italy, aided by a Turkish invasion. A darkly comic and bloodthirsty tale. Saturday 16th June at 4pm
The Renegado by Philip Massinger
By the author of The Revenger’s Tragedy and based on a novel by Cervantes, The Renegado interweaves the stories of Antonio, who converts to Islam and becomes a pirate, and Vitelli, who falls in love with a Turkish princess and is forced to chose between Christianity and freedom. Saturday 30th June at 4pm
A Christian Turned Turk by Robert Daborne
This swashbuckling play, based on real-life characters, tells the story of a pirate whose love for a Muslim girl causes him to convert to Islam.
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The Turk Plays series is produced by Blue Hug Theatre Company
panel discussions
New Turkish Plays Saturday 12th May at 4pm
Tamar Ah Tamar
by Cem Düzova Translated by Eamon Rooney
IN ENGLISH A love story based on a Turkish / Armenian myth. Düzova’s lyrical work draws on the many cultures of the region around Van.
Pazar 20 Haziran saat 2’de
Göçmen Düğünü
by Muserref Ozturk Cetindogan
IN TURKISH - Türkçe Oyun, \stanbul’da sıradan bir salonda gerçekleşen bir düğünün grotesk komedisidir. Bir yanda \stanbul’a göç etmiş bir ailenin kızı Saadet; diğer yanda Almanya’ya göç etmiş bir ailenin oğlu Murat. Birbirlerini internetten bulan bu iki genç aracılğıyla, Doğu’da batılı gibi yaşamaya çalışanlarla, Batı’da inatla Doğu’lu kimliğini korumak için mücadele edenler karşı karşıya getirilmektedir.
Sunday 27th May at 5pm (Part of Rumi Day) - Lyndy Saville, director of Theatrical Experience - Nihat Tsolak, Director of Caravansary.org - Dr Ismail Cimen, ney and oud musician and naat singer, Turkish Classical Music Conservatory, Istanbul Technical University
Turkey in the EU?
Saturday 9th June at 4pm - Alper Riza, QC (Chair) - Mehmet Uğur, Greenwhich University - Hüseyin Özer, Founder & Owner, International Turkish Restaurant Chain SOFRA
Contemporary Turkish Writing: Orhan Pamuk and Beyond
Saturday 23rd June at 4pm - Dr Yorgo Dedes, SOAS (Chair) - Maureen Freely, writer and translator of the works of Orhan Pamuk - Moris Farhi, author of Young Turk - Ruth Christie, translator of Turkish literature
Fear of Turks: A history of prejudice Saturday 30th June at 6pm (after the final Turk play) - Dr Geoffrey King, SOAS (Chair) - Dan Barnard, Turk Plays Season Director - Michael Cabot, Director of Pera Palas
Building Artistic Relationships in Turkey
Saturday 7th July at 4pm - British Council - ACE - Euclid (invited) - Mehmet Ergen, Founder & Artistic Director, Arcola Theatre - Jonathan Meth, Writernet - Denizhan Özer, Curator
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A season of films including features, documentaries and new shorts shown on Sunday nights at 8pm.
Sadam’s Road to Hell
Frontline Film presents:
Sadam’s Road To Hell
Sunday 29th April at 8pm Followed by a Q & A with co-director Gwynne Roberts Directors: Gwynne Roberts & John Williams Running Time: 52 minutes
A journey through Iraq to find out what happened to 8,000 Kurdish men and boys missing since the early years of Saddam Hussein's rule. This case - the murder of the Barzanis - was a precursor to Saddam's deadly campaign against the Kurds in which more than 100,000 men, women and children were executed.
Umut
Festival of European Films on Wheels presents:
Umut (Hope)
Sunday 20th May at 8pm Director & Writer: Yılmaz Güney Cast: Yılmaz Güney, Gülşen Alnıaçık, Tuncel Kurtiz, Osman Alyanak Running Time: 100 minutes. In Turkish with English subtitles Widely considered the best Turkish film ever made. A desperate search for the treasure through which Güney depicts horrific poverty and despair in shockingly stark terms; a language hitherto unknown to Turkish cinema.
Orient Express shorts/Harmonia Mundi
Ufuk Genç presents:
Orient Express Shorts Sunday 24th June at 8pm.
A programme of short films from Turkey, Europe and England chosen by Ufuk Genç, organiser of the short films programme of the annual London Turkish Film Festival.
Yılık yapılan Türk kısa filim festivalini organize eden Ufuk Genç tarafından hazırlanan bir saatlik Kısa Filim Programı Türkiye, Avrupa ve \ngiltere'den katılacak kısa filimlerinden oluşuyor. Rumi
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Archetype presents:
The World of Rumi, the films of Shems Friedlander
Sunday 27th May at 8pm Part of Rumi day – see also Panel Discussions and Music & Dance
Rumi’s outpouring of divine knowledge in music and lyric poems are international bestsellers. A double-bill of Rumi The Wings of Love (34 min) and The Circles of Remembrance (82 min) by Shems Friedlander the renowned American photographer, filmmaker and writer.
Film at Arcola is curated by Lyndy Saville
A continually changing exhibition of work by more than twenty contemporary artists from Turkey including paintings, photography, video and installation. Works are curated in two strands: My Land, My Body during Silver Birch House which considers Anatolia and the East of Turkey; and Meeting Point during Pera Palas, which focuses on Istanbul.
Artists include: Merih Akoğul, Kadir Aktay, Volkan Aslan, Defne Ayhan, Nazan Azeri, Bülent Bakan, Ömer Serkan Bakır, Bedri Baykam, Seyhan Boztepe, \smet Çavuşoğlu, Oktay Çolak, Uygar Demoglu, Yıldız Doyran, Nadir Ede, Nurettin Erkan, Murat Germen, Şinasi Güneş Gül Ilgaz, Emrah Kangal, Vehbi Koca, Nihat Küçük, Rengim Mütevellioğlu, Vicdan Nalbur, Aras Nirak, Denizhan Özer, \lhan Özer, Ferhat Özgür, Metin Şenergüg, Cengiz Uğur, Pinar Yeşilada
Korridor Arts works to develop dialogue between artists from East and West by curating exhibitions around the world, focusing on Turkey. This exhibition is curated by Denizhan Özer co-founder of Koridoor.
Yıldız Doyran
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Merih Akoğul
Nurettin Erkan
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