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Oktay Arayıcı

PSEUDONYM GONCAGÜL

İstanbul State Theatre

Theatre

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Playwright, Oktay Arayıcı
Score, Timur Selçuk
Director, Zafer Algöz

Oktay Arayıcı, one of the prominent playwrights of the Turkish Theatre, tells the story of the “Women” who are cornered under the pressures of changing social life and strive to vindicate their name, being, and desperation through the lenses of a modern Orta Oyunu world of theatre. The scores for the play also bear the marks of the great pianist and conductor Timur Selçuk.

İnsaf Hanım, who lives in a debilitated house in one of İstanbul’s historical quarters with her daughter Gülsün, is no longer able to live by her late husband’s retirement pension, henceforth rents one of the rooms in the house, of which she is also a tenant, to Sıtkı.

“Had the dear-departed Ruhi Bey managed and owned a house, would we have fallen into this situation?”

İnsaf Hanım, finding herself overwhelmed by financial difficulties and the exacerbated pressures of living in an urban centre that is ever-changing, exerts herself to seek out a way out of this stuckness and writes a newspaper advertisement under the pseudonym "Goncagül" so that her daughter can have a house and a place of security. However, when two hundred and sixty-one letters are received, Ms. İnsaf, who realizes that she will not be able to meet all of them, asks her tenant for help. Sıtkı agrees to help the mother and the daughter, and he also talks with the suitors. However, later on, things suddenly become too tangled to be resolved.

“For all your high sentences about the greatness of love, why have you betrayed me?”

Gülsün, unaware of Sıtkı’s affections towards her, understands that what all her suitors want of her is personal expediency and that she has been seriously betrayed. She first sinks into despair but is then brought to her feet by the love she trusts.

Right when they feel most happy, however, a great surprise awaits them.

Scenic Design, Nur Sinem Mete
Costume Design, Burcu Melek Bozan
Light Design, İ.Önder Arık
Musical Director, Rahim Ozan Demir
Choreographer, Kerem Kuraner
Dramaturge, Derya Özer
Co-Director(S), İşdar Gökseven, Eylem Yıldız, Ergun Akvuran
Visual Design, Cihan Kahraman
Asistant, Şebnem Bilgeer
Illustrator, Nur Sinem Mete
Poster Design, Cem Yılmaz

Actors
İnsaf, Dilek Güven
Gülsün, Eylem Yıldız, Şebnem Bilgeer
Sıtkı, Efe Erkekli
Ayşen, Duygu Gökhan
Halet Rezâki, Erdoğan Aydemir
Müfit Mürted, Engin Delice
Dursun Ali,Ahmet Dizdaroğlu
Refik Mayısoğlu, Uğur Keleş
Nasuhi Bey, Aydın Orak
Garson Buğra, Kağan Kahraman

Musicians
Piano, Rahim Ozan Demir
Oud, Bayramcan Boy
Clarinet, Ercan Yalazan
Violin, Ahmet Bekir Bağcı
Kanun, Harun Uğur Kaya
Rhythm, Berat Melemez
Vocal, Şebnem Bilgeer

Stage Manager, Burak Akyüz
Stagehand, Ersin Sönmez
Light Operation, Ozan Çelik
Set Supervisor, Necati Işık
Property Supervisor Serkan Dürser
Women’s Tailor, Nimet Çelebi
Men’s Tailor, Meral Şeker
Wigmaker, Zeynep Bolkısık Bağ
Projection Control, Korhan Boduroğlu, Uğur Akcan

Event Rules

Detailed information regarding ticket purchase, cancellation, refund, and exchange policies can be found through official ticket sales channels.
For events where student discounts are applicable, student tickets are valid only with a valid student ID and can be purchased from the AKM Box Office. The student ID must be presented to the event staff on the day of the event.
For events cancelled by Atatürk Cultural Center, the refund application period for tickets purchased from the box office is 15 days from the date of cancellation. Within this period, audience members must submit their refund requests at the AKM Box Office.
Age restrictions for our events are specified in the event rules. All attendees are required to have a valid ticket.
For Children’s Art Center workshops, the age group is specified separately. Guests whose ages do not fall within the indicated range will not be permitted to enter the workshop area. Tickets purchased for these workshops are non-refundable and non-exchangeable.
AKM Management reserves the right to deny entry to individuals deemed unsuitable for the event, in which case a refund will be issued.
AKM reserves the right to make changes to its ticket purchase policies.

AKM reserves the right to change the event venue and time.
Guests are required to adhere to the specified seating arrangement. No seat changes are allowed during the event.
After the event starts, no audience member will be allowed into the hall.
Recording with cameras, photo cameras, mobile phones, etc. is prohibited during the concert. Recording devices will not be allowed in the venues.
You must be ready with your ticket at the event entrance at least 1 hour before the event start time.
AKM can make changes to event venues. The AKM management will prepare a seating plan that provides our audience with the closest seats to their ticket numbers in the new venue. Purchased tickets are non-refundable due to the change of venue.
It is prohibited to enter areas outside the designated spaces in the venues with food or beverages, to consume tobacco and tobacco products, or to use electronic cigarettes.
There is a paid parking lot inside AKM.

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