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Premiere

YALANCININ RESMİ

 

Written by: Memet Baydur

Director: Serkan Budak

 

Set Design: Hasan Yavuz, Costume Design: Fatma Duygu Ergüven Saykan

Lighting Design: Rahmi Özan, Music: Efe Ünal, Assistant Director : Şenay Ünsal Dikmen, Assistant: Umutcan Koçmen / S. Berkan Köse

 

CAST

Man: Fatih Özyiğit, Woman: Güldeniz Türküstün

 

Soloist: Özlem Sağlam, Piano – Cello: Emre Deniz, Violin, Merve Onkar, Double Bass: Mete Çalışkan

 

Stage Manager: Müjde Bilir / Göksu Bekiz, Conduit, Özlem Doğruöz / Ali Avcı, Lighting Controller: Alper Mutlu, Prompter: Didem Özfuruncu

 

Set Manager: Mustafa Akpınar, Accessory Manager: Yalçın Örgül, Woman’s Dresser:  Zarife Çağlar, Man’s Dresser:  Kadri Özel / İlker Korkmaz, Toupee: Sami Ozturk

 

1 Act / 1 hour 15 minutes, Age limit: +12

 

Yalancinin Resmi (Picture of A Liar)

The play is a story of a meeting on a park bench. It depicts autumn and a first time meeting. On one side, a man who has lost his son and separated from his wife, on the other side, a woman who lost her husband four years ago, lost herself in the pages of books, and accustomed herself to loneliness…

The conversation which the strange man begins in the park is like a colourful spectrum extending from Nazım Hikmet to Pablo Picasso, Yuri Gagarin to Luciana Pavorotti, Albert Einstein to Orhan Veli. 

After a while, the woman also gets caught up in the game the man weaves with his stories. They start playing this together and it is no longer certain which of the stories is true and which is a lie, as the story gets more and more complicated. I wonder, is this game they have made up and enjoyed together enough to save them from their lonely world?

 

Director Serkan Budak

Budak was born in Manisa/Salihli in 1976. He graduated  

from Dokuz Eylül University’s Performing Arts Department in 2002. Starting his professional theater career with Gencay Gürünat Tiyatro İstanbul, he 

Can Gürzap and Metin Serezli for many years. He had the chance to work as 

an actor and director with such masters of Turkish Theater as Metin Serezli, Can Gürzap, Cihat Tamer, Zihni Göktay, Nilgün Belgün, Nurseli İdiz, Ayşen Gruda, Halit Akçatepe and Bedia Ener. Serkan currently works for the Izmir State Theater.

 

Some of the Plays He Directed;

Aşk Ve Komedi - Tiyatro İstanbul

İkinci Bahar - Tiyatro Epizot

Kalpten Kalbe - Tiyatro Epizot

Sahnede Şenlik Var (Orta Oyunu) - Stil Prodüksiyon

Etekler Ve Pantolonlar - Tiyatro Yeditepe

Karimin Kocasi - Diyarbakir Devlet Tiyatrosu

Zihni Göktay Ve Cihat Tamer İle Bir Varmiş Bir Yokmuş - Tiyatro Epizot

 

Fatih Özyiğit

Born in 1974 in İzmit, Fatih completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Ankara, graduating from Ankara University’s Theatre Department in 1998. He started his professional career as a contract artist at the Ankara State Theatre. In 2005, he joined the Sivas State Theatre full time and has been working at İzmir’s State Theatre since 2012. He has acted in many plays within the State Theatre. Some of these include Helikopter, 72. Koğuş, Rumuz Goncagül, Martı, Öğüt, Duvarların Lekesi, 

Peron, Yerin Altında, Son Çığlık, Kurban, Öfke, Kantocu and Lysistrata. 

Fatih continues to work as an actor for the İzmir State Theatre. He has 

received the best male actor award twice at  the Bedia Muvahhit and Direklerarası Awards. In addition to his duties at the State Theatre, he also works with high school students as a drama instructor.

 

Güldeniz Türküstün

Born in İzmir in 1973, she completed her secondary education at Çamlaraltı College, graduating from Ankara State Conservatory’s Theater Department. . Güldeniz started working as one of the 20-person cast for the opening of Erzurum State Theatre in 1997. She completed her nine-year Eastern service at Erzurum and Konya State Theatres and has been working as an actress at İzmir’s State Theatre since 2005, becoming an Artist Representative for the İzmir State Theatre last year. She has taken on leading roles in many plays and has been nominated for numerous awards, primarily Bedia Muvahhit, with the roles she has taken in different productions, and has received the Best Actress of the Year award four times. In addition to her profession, she has trained in channelling energy and in personal and spiritual development

 

Memet Baydur (B: August 9, 1951, Ankara – D: November24, 2001, Istanbul)

Memet Baydur completed his secondary education in Ankara at Ataturk High School and Gazi High School. 

In England he studied sociology at the University of London for a while (1974-1978) and dropped out in the final year without receiving a diploma. 

He did not return to Turkey but lived in London and Paris and then went to Africa, staying there for four years and teaching “History of Cinema and Cinematography” at the Kenya School of Mass Communication. He was also among the founders of the International Mediterranean Theatre Institute in Madrid.

Memet wrote essays on theatre in Spanish and French, and several of his plays have been translated into English, French and Spanish. He served as the Turkish consultant for the Bonn Theatre Biennial starting in 1992, and  taught cinema at the Uğur Mumcu Investigative Journalism Foundation.

Memet’s first article was published in Yeni İnsan in 1979. He has published his stories and articles in Milliyet Sanat, Gösteri, Kitaplık and Sanat Dünyamız magazines, and has written a column entitled “Bird’s Eye View” for Cumhuriyet newspaper.

Baydur became famous for his stories and theatre plays, and stated that he thought of each of his plays as part of a larger play. . His first play, Limon, was staged at the State Theatre in 1987. His other plays were also performed at the State Theatre and other city theatres in various provinces. All of his plays have been compiled into books. 

 

His Works

Cumhuriyet Kızı (1990),

Yangın Yerinde Orkideler (1991),

 Toplu Oyunları I (1993, Dağımı, Limon, Yalnızlığın Oyuncakları, Kadın İstasyonu),

Toplu Oyunları II (1993, Düdüklüde Kıymalı Bamya, Aşk, Vladimir Komarov),

Güne Bakan Cam Kırıkları (2003),

Tensing (1994),

Toplu Oyunları III (1994, Yeşil Papağan Ltd., Sevgi Ayakları, Kamyon),

Kutu Kutu (1995).

The Toys of Loneliness (Theater Anadolu Magazine, Fall 1989) was published and performed. The Women's Station won the Inonu Foundation Theatre Award and was staged abroad at the Richard Martin Theatre. The plays The Truck, The Masked Rider and Minced Okra in the Pressure Cooker were staged in 1991 and Vladimir Komarov in 1993.

 

Stoy

Gözün Kahverengi Suyu

 

Essey

Ucello’nun Kuşları (ö.s. İletişim Yayınları, 2002).

1984, Sanat Kurumu En Başarılı Oyun Yazarı, Limon

 

Awards

1988, İnönü Vakfı Tiyatro Ödülü – İkincilik

2000, 4. Afife Tiyatro Ödülleri, Cevat Fehmi Başkut Özel Ödülü, (Güne Bakan Cam Kırıkları), Writer 0f the Most Successful Local Play Staged for the First Time That Year

 

 

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