Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality City Theatres is embarking on a Grand Turkey Tour covering 110 regions and dozens of cities as part of its 7th year events. After Eskişehir and Ankara, the Grand Turkey Tour will continue to include Antalya, Gaziantep, Diyarbakır, Van…
Written by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Mustafa Kemal Yılmaz, adapted and directed by Onur Demircan, “Dog Heart” will be screened on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 20.30 at Eskişehir City Theatres Opera Stage.
Written by Lev Tolstoy, adapted by Eva Mahkovic, translated by Aslı Önal, and directed by Aleksandar Popovski, “War and Peace” will be on air on Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 20.30 at the Ankara Etimesgut Municipality 100th Year Republic Culture Center.
Now It's Time for the Grand Türkiye Tour
General Art Director Ayşegül İşsever said the following about the Grand Türkiye Tour in an interview:
“Now it’s time for the Grand Turkey Tour. We are planning a grand tour covering 2 regions with 7 legs. We will first perform this in Eskişehir on March 19th. The audience will embrace Köpek Kalbi in Eskişehir. Then we will go to our capital, Ankara. We will meet with the Ankara audience.
We will embrace the audience with Tolstoy's unforgettable work, War and Peace, a cornerstone of world literature, directed by Aleksandar Popovski. We are very excited.
On March 24, we will visit our Great Leader Atatürk at his literary resting place with an official ceremony as the entire City Theatre family. We are very proud. We are very happy about this visit.
"We will immediately go to Antalya. Yaşar Kemal's "The Legend of Mount Ararat" will meet the audience for 2 days. Then Gaziantep, Diyarbakır, Van... We will continue like this. We are very excited. The countdown has begun. We are counting the days." he said.
DOG HEART
The year is 1924… In the dark atmosphere of Soviet Russia, trapped in the social order and bureaucracy, Professor Preobrazhensky is working on the human brain and rejuvenation. He has developed a technique that has brought him worldwide fame and allows people to rejuvenate. He plans to conduct a new experiment in the process of brain research. He transplants the pituitary gland and testicles taken from a human to the street dog Sharik through a difficult surgery. However, unexpected changes occur after the surgery, Sharik begins to transform into a human. This change will turn the rules of Professor Preobrazhensky's house upside down. Dog Heart asks the question of what makes a human human through a people who have lost social peace with social engineering, rotten bureaucracy and class wars.
Ali Gökmen Altuğ, Caner Çandarlı, İrem Arslan, Onur Şirin take part in the play.
WAR AND PEACE
Set between 1805 and 1820, and also a historical narrative, “War and Peace” deals with the Russian aristocracy, whose lives changed completely just before Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812. While love affairs, family and salon life are narrated on the one hand, war and its irreversible destruction continue. While War and Peace bears the characteristics of a historical narrative in many ways, it is also an epic work that contains philosophical thoughts on life, beliefs, and the purpose of human life, and includes political and sociological inferences. In the play, where wars and battles form the background of historical figures such as Napoleon and Kutuzov, love stories, personal weaknesses, family conflicts and losses create a panorama that extends from the society at large to each character in the play. The play stars Ayşegül İşsever, Berfin Berber, Can Başak, Defne Gürmen Yüksel, Deran Özgen, Dilara Demirdüzen, Doğan Altınel, Ersin Bağcıoğlu, İpek Uğuz, Melisa Demirhan, Mesut Çırak, Murat Bavli, Mutlu Güney, Ogeday Erkut, Osman Kaba, Salih Şimşek, Sefa Turan, Yağmur Topçu, Ali Rıza Kubilay, Ahmet Kahvecioğlu, Boran Bağcı, and Cem Eyüpoğlu.
