A theatre festival where the playwright plays the leading role.
Since 2004, Oyun Yaz project has searched for new playwrigts in 5 cities in Turkey - İstanbul, Van, Diyarbakır, Ankara, Kocaeli – with the help and support of writers, directors and dramaturgs from UK. Many first time playwrights emerged with new plays.
We have selected 11 playwrights’ first works from around 400 candidates to present in a rehearsed reading.
The aim was to represent the realities of contemporary life in Turkey with a social realist attitude, depicting it with its flesh and blood, avoiding absurdist, “personal”, devieant traditions.
Along with the readings of plays, there will be a number of workshops – in English and Turkish – open to playwrights of all levels and experience.
Oyun Yaz is a year round project creating new plays and platforms for playwrights to make contacts.
Oyun Yaz Festival is an opportunity for people to meet and discover new plays.
It is also a “demonstartion” for those who believe that Turkey doesn’t produce good playrights.
Creation of a platform for those who choose plays for the repertoire – dramaturgs, directors, actors and artistic directors.
This year, the festival also hosts one of the Fence meetings of playwrights, which takes place in 4 other cities in Europe.
Oyun Yaz has been primarily funded by British Council, Turkey since 2004. The project also continues to sustain and create links with British and Turkish theatre makers.
We hope that you will come and hear at least a few of these plays which are all going to be presented to an audience for the first time. Some of the readings will have subtitles and some will have detailed synopsises.
We invite you to support young playwrights early in their carreres.
Artistic Director : Mehmet Ergen
Producer: Seçil Honeywill
Writers and Directors mentoring Oyun Yaz writers:
Serdar Biliş
John Burgess
Mehmet Ergen
Jennifer Farmer
Lisa Goldman
Christine Harmar Brown
Secil Honeywill
Judith Johnson
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Tiffany Watt-Smith |
