“Hello, good evening everyone. The Golden Globes is being watched in 199 countries, including my country, Turkey. I grew up watching this ceremony and it is a great honor to be here tonight. Peace at home, peace in the world”. On the
Jonathas de Andrade’s work O Peixe at old Antrepo, now Resim Heykel Museum, has virtually become the symbol of this year’s Istanbul Biennial. If the organizers at IKSV did a survey of all the works, it could have been chosen as the most
The abolition of talent exams for the Faculty of Fine Arts has stirred debate among the culture-arts and higher education milieus in Turkey and has been on the agenda for some time now. In October, the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) announced
Theatre is the stage of life. Finding and building her life around theatre, Yıldız Kenter died on November 17th 2019 at the age of ninety-one, leaving behind 100 works that she starred in and directed. A Star is “Born” As she passed away
Even though Comte is known for his flashy fashion photography, lately the artist has been producing works regarding the climate crisis. The journey in which photography remains in the background while multimedia works and installations on large surfaces, produced by the use
Recently, Yenişafak Newspaper brought a case about Chora Museum to the agenda. According to the newspaper’s report, an association called Permanent Associations Historical Monuments and Service for the Environment opened a lawsuit for the conversion of the Chora Museum, which is one
From your biography we learn that you were brought up by close relatives who worked in the theater world in Lithuania and that at the age of four you appeared on stage for the first time for the Madame Butterfly opera. First of
First of all, what is Traptown about in a nutshell? In a nutshell, it’s an invented timeless mythology, a re-written mythology that is universal since most mythologies have something universal in them. Timeless, so that it can “return” time and it’s about oppression.
Welcome to Istanbul. The Circus is an enthusiastically awaited performance. Let’s start with getting to know you. How and why did you decide to become a theatre director? I should say that I come from a family that belonged to the theatre
We have left the 38th Istanbul Book Fair behind, where the number of publishers, claiming that they publish from fair to fair, increases every day. Almost all the participants agree that the fair has lost its charm and we are experiencing one of
Murat Daltaban’s play titled Meet Me at Dawn, staged at the London Arcola Theatre was selected for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Theatre and Performance Collection. Daltaban is an actor and he is also the art director of the independent theatre company