Richard

W.Shakespeare, Richard III, arranged from the translation by Berna Moran
Adaptation – Playwright – Director: Okan Bayülgen
Project: Nihal Usanmaz - Kubilay Çamlıdağ – Orkun Dökmeci

It’s the year 2012. The bones that belong to King Richard III have been found in a parking lot in Leicester. It will take some time until the forensics team scrutinize the bone samples and prove that it is indeed him. Coincidentally, a small theatre company based in London producing mostly unconventional artistic plays is about to stage a commissioned Richard III. There is also an unidentified criminal, who has taken shelter in the theatre, whom the police are after. “Richard”, who has taken refuge in the theatre, first gets the Richard part; and then, the whole production of the play. Due to his “ill form”, he is against any orderly organization in either the state or the theatre. While on the one hand, he receives support from tolerant and democratic artists; on the other, he disarrays the organization in the theatre, goes against the corporate ethics or the hierarchy of the arts, and comes up with the most unorthodox production of a Richard play. Inspired by drag queen shows and fashion parades, he finds no harm in casting non-actors and underturning the layout of the theatre or the personal -material and spiritual- lives of people. The theatre quakes with a calamity; in the meanwhile, the kingdom gets ready for the funeral of Richard III. Okan Bayülgen looks at Shakespeare’s Richard through the looking glass of the first quarter of this century. He readdresses the reality of Richard in the way the modern philosophers go at it, bringing in the question storification of Richard by Shakespeare. As we discuss alienation, estrangement, and going wild, an imaginary theatre company stages once again Shakespeare’s Richard III.

Dramaturge : Dilek Tekintaş
Consultants: Yalın Alpay – Dr. Başar Akman
Scenic Design: Efter Tunç
Costume Design: Ayşegül Alev
Light Design: Kemal Yiğitcan
Movement Design: Dicle Doğan
Cinetic Statue Design: Server Demirtaş
Illustrations: M. K. Perker
Music: Ömer Vatansever – Fırat Ağacık – Okan Bayülgen
Hair Design: Derya Ergün
Poser Design: Berkcan Okar
Photography: Fethi Karaduman
Co-Director: Nihal Usanmaz
Director’s Assistants: Dilay Yıldız, Ferdi Taşkın, Ali Akkök
Stage Manager(s): Sinem Bayraktar, Oğuzhan Yıldırım

ACTORS: Okan Bayülgen, Şenay Gürler, Ebru Unurtan Urağ, Nihal Usanmaz, Kevork Türker, Kubilay Çamlıdağ, Oral Özer, Özgün Çoban, Esra Yaşar, Su Sonia Herring, Volkan Ateş Gündüz, Dilay Yıldız, Cem Tilmen, Ali Akkök, Cüneyt Üstün, Ferdi Taşkın, Levent Akkök, Cihan Akbilek, Orkun Dökmeci, Ece Önderoğlu, Sinan Aksu, Kayra Ural, İstanbul Bayülgen

Production: Net Sanat – Kabare Dada
We would like to thank Aydın Özgültekin for his contribution.