To Fly 'Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi'

AKM - TO FLY<br> 'HEZÂRFEN AHMED ÇELEBİ'

Ö. F. OYAL

TO FLY
'HEZÂRFEN AHMED ÇELEBİ'

Theatre

İstanbul State Theatre

Written by Ömer F. Oyal
Directed by Hakan Çimenser

Plot
Highly knowledgeable Ahmed Çelebi, whose heart had been fully locked in on the idea of flying over İstanbul, is a strange, hard-to-understand person from the 17th centuryi who followed the footprints of Cevheri, who let himself fly in the sweet and lovely air, having jumped out of Nişapur Mosque with a pair of door leaves, and studied the moves of the flying birds like Cevheri himself. His wife and bondmaid failed to make sense of this desire of him. Nor did the people around him. He continues to exchance opposing view with his nemesis Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, who shared his Ahmed’s wish to leave a trace behind. He was a person that was ready to sacrifice his self in order to experience the joy and fear of falling which could not be contained within the universe and the attractive feeling of soaring to the skies. His passion for flying, which becomes further serious as Sultan Murad IV hears of it, makes him continuously go between life and death. It is either that he’ll be able to fly or that the sun will rise on İstanbul, where he no longer lives…

Actors & Actresses
Ahmed Çelebi: Tolga Evren
Lagâri Hasan: Çelebi Emir Çiçek
Evliya Çelebi: Fikret Urucu
Yusuf Agha/Warden: Orhan Kurtuldu
Ayşe Hanım: Ebru Unurtan Urağ
Süleyman Effendi: Halil Doğan
Gülfiraz: Zuhal Acar
Mustafa: Efe Erkekli, Onur Ulutaş
İbrahim: Bilal Ercan
Hunter: Eray Cezayirlioğlu
Evliya Çelebi’s Clerk: Vehbi Akıntürk
Ahmed as a Child: Ömer Faruk Çalışkan
First Child: Ege Demirci
Second Child: Burak Batın Çelik
Whirling Dervish: Abdurrahman Merallı

Public, Liver Seller, Keeper of the Coffeehouse, Barber: Abdurrahman Merallı, Ahmet Kurt, Başak Ova, Başak Rana Baysal, Canan Demirli, Erdem Bilgi, Hakan Sivlim, İrem Dilaver Ayturan, Muhammed Yıldız, Onur Ulutaş, Özlem Karataş, Cem Şahin

Carnival Group: Abdurrahman Merallı, Ahmet Kurt, Başak Ova, Başak Rana Baysal, Canan Demirli, Erdem Bilgi, Hakan Sivlim, İrem Dilaver Ayturan, Muhammed Yıldız, Onur Ulutaş, Özlem Karataş, Sefa Köksal, Onur Soyal Pehlivan, Atlas Karan Tumluer, Abdülhamit Mutlu, Emrah Can Yaman

Set Design: Şirin Dağtekin Yenen
Costume Design: Çevren Sarayoğlu
Light Design: Akın Yılmaz
Music: Fırat Akarcalı
Choreographer: Orçun Okurgan
Acrobatics and Carnival Instructor: Mehmet Kandemir
Video Mapping: Decol New Media Studio
Digital Art Director: Amir Ahmadoglu
Miniature Artist: Hilal Arpacıoğlu
Dramaturgist: Selen Korad Birkiye
Assistant Director: Ezgi Yentürk
Assistants: Esra Akbaş, Pınar Alev

Stage Manager: Ergül Muslu
Callboy: Emrah Tirsi
Light Controller: Serdar Yaman, Gökhan Gülçebi
Mapping Controller: Seda Özyurt, Ferhat Daşdemir
Decor Supervisors: Selçuk Oltuözer, Bedri Ulutaş
Accessory Supervisor: Kürşat Çelik
Women’s Tailor: Hatice Özyurt
Men’s Tailor: Ali Egeli
Perivig: İbrahim Atmaca
Mechanic: Ali Yılmaz

Event Rules

Event sessions are put on sale one month before the event date, on the same date. In special circumstances, the date when the tickets are put on sale may vary.
Tickets purchased through the Biletinial application or website can be refunded by logging in to your MEMBERSHIP, from the CANCEL section within the MY TICKETS section 48 hours before the event time. Cancellation/Refund procedures are valid for tickets purchased online and not printed at the box office.
Refund requests for tickets purchased without a MEMBERSHIP login must be sent via email to info@biletinial.com 48 hours before the event time. Cancellation/Refund procedures are valid for tickets purchased online and not printed at the box office.
In events where the student discount is applicable, the student ticket is valid with a student ID and is sold at the AKM Box Office. The student ID must be shown to the staff on the day of the event.
For the events canceled by the Atatürk Cultural Centre, the refund application period for tickets purchased at the box office is 15 days from the date of cancellation. During this period, our audience members need to request a refund at the AKM Box Office.
All events are suitable for participants aged 7 and above. All participants are subject to tickets. In special circumstances, the age limit is specified separately.
AKM management reserves the right to deny entry to individuals deemed inappropriate for the event by refunding their tickets.
AKM reserves the right to make changes to the ticket purchase conditions.

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.
The age group for the Children’s Art Centre workshops is specified separately. Guests who do not meet the specified age requirement for the event are not allowed to enter the workshop area. Purchased tickets are non-refundable and non-changeable.
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.
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