Stage and Costume Design: Başak Özdoğan Light Design: İsmail Sağır Director Assistant: Sinem Öcalır Poster Photograph: James Hughes Photographs: Ali Güler Poster Design: Muzaffer Malkoç
“Evaristo, is a play that attempts to speak about today but sets its eyes on past, on present and even on future. Play greets the audience in a damp and dirty bunker, sways the expectance of the audience from one side to another. Evaristo as defined by its playwright is struggle of an ageless woman to hold on to life. It is an ambition to live… a story that lasts for decades. On the other hand, it is an observation on the recent social history of the world gazing from a dark underground bunker. It is both dark and brutal but also crazy and fun at the same time. Playwright gives the audience an enormous freedom to position him/herself in relating to the play.”Nihal Koldaş
6 Üstü Oyun / “6 by 6 Plays” Project “6 Üstü Oyun” project is created by Altıdan Sonra Production. Some of the most productive Turkish playwrights got together within this project and everymonth month starting December one play will make a premier. Plays with the common theme of “TODAY” written by Ayşe Bayramoğlu, Civan Canova, Ebru Nihan Celkan, Mirza Metin, Yeşim Özsoy Gülan vand Yiğit Sertdemir will be performed by master actors and actresses.
“6 Üstü Oyun” project is created by Theater After Six. Art Director of the Project: Yiğit Sertdemir
Comments of playwright Civan Canova on the play:I wrote Evaristo with great joy. Writing some plays turns into a burden as the writing process lingers on. You strive to finish. But it was not the case this time. It was written “in a trice”. Even though I was really busy with so many other things. If it were not for my dear friend Yiğit Sertdemir’s suggestion I would have never written it. Six plays, six playwrights, six directors and six actors/actresses. It was a very appealing project. After seeing Kumbaraci50 stage I was even more eager to work. Affected by the space, all the thoughts and ideas I had been playing in my head for some time poured out of a woman’s mouth; an old, mad, weary, somewhat familiar bur very weird woman. “Indeed when you look at the horizon you understand. There seem to be a weird redness… Not only on the ocean side… but everywhere. The TV calls it “spring time”… but I can’t figure it out”. Like they say “an onion makes you drink a whole bottle of rakı”, this sentence in my head made me write a whole play. I really can’t find anything more to add to the words of Nihal Koldaş. I do believe this play couldn’t be explained in better words than those of Ms. Nihal Koldaş. Moreover, as I think of those two magnificent women who will give life to an imaginary woman, I feel very happy that I wrote it. Thank you, Nihal Koldaş and Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu. And of course, thank you Yiğit Sertdemir. You earned me and to us all a play.
