Girne American University (GAU) 1st Theatre Days commenced with “Hamlet” from Moda Sahnesi (Fashion Stage) on Monday 24th March 2014, at 20:00.

The event, organized with the collaboration of the TRNC Deputy Prime Minister, Ministry of Economics, Tourism and Culture and GAU, started with Hamlet – the most famous William Shakespeare classic. The Seagull – the immortal work of Anton Chekhov and other plays named All Nuts Love Me or The Temptation, Bir Kibrit Kutusu Beyaz Peynir (A Match Box of White Cheese), It Felt Empty When the Heart Went at First but It Is Alright Now, Mehşer-i Cümbüş and Partners in Crime will be staged every night between 24th and 30th March 2014.

The plays which are organized under the GAU 1st Theatre Days with the co-operation of TRNC Deputy Prime Minister and the GAU Acting - Drama Department as part of the 27th March World Theatre Days, will be staged at 20:00 pm every night between the dates of 24th and 30th of March for theatre lovers.

Opinion Leaders that give shape to art and theatre are at GAU.

The aim of GAU 1st Theatre Days, which will stage famous plays of the world, is to infuse the awareness of theatre to the entire Cyprus people and students and to increase the interest in the art.

Also it is stated that the tickets can be obtained from Nicosia Leman Kültür, Magosa (Famagusta) Simit Saray, GAU Department of Public Relations and Akpınar Patisseries. For further information telephone 0(392) 650 2000 extension 1165 and visit www.gau.edu.tr and gaupr@gau.edu.tr..

The details of the plays which will be staged as part of the GAU 1st Theatre Days are as follows:

Schedule of GAU 1st Theatre Days

Hamlet
Moda Sahnesi (Fashion Stage)
24 March 2014 / at 20:00pm /GAU Spectrum

Author: William Shakespeare
Translator: Onur Ünsal – Emre Adıyaman
Director: Kemal Aydoğan
Stage Design: Bengi Günay
Light Design: İrfan Varlı

Cast
Onur Ünsal
Esra Kızıldoğan
Kübra Kip
Murat Tüzün
Timur Acar
İnan Ulaş Torun
Çağlar Yalçınkaya
Hasan Demirtaş
Alper Baytekin

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All Nuts Love Me or The Temptation

Fashion Stage
25 March 2014 / at 20:00pm /GAU Spectrum

The play “All Nuts Love Me or The Temptation” of Stefan Tsanev who is an important author of Bulgarian theatre, describes the story of Yosif asking for help from his old friend, Angel, to seduce his wife after questioning her loyalty to him.

Author: Stefan Tsanev
Translator: Hüseyin Mevsim
Director: Kemal Aydoğan
Stage Design: Bengi Günay
Light Design: İrfan Varlı

Cast
Mert Fırat
Aslı Tandoğan
Volkan Yosunlu

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Bir Kibrit Kutusu Beyaz Peynir
(A Match Box of White Cheese)

Lefkoşa Municipality Theatre
26 March 2014 / at 20:00pm / GAU Spectrum

A system which is managed by the "Big Bosses”…“The Rights" that are imposed by the system... Those who are involved "unconsciously" into this system…
The name of the project, the Diet of the Duke: A matchbox white cheese and a pill.
The effort of changing only the physical, to get rid of the mental imbalance and unhappiness…
The mirrors lose their function at the point where the man can’t see himself…
Conclusion: When a person can’t reveal his mind and soul, in a word his existence and can’t get over the feelings of worthlessness that is self-appraised, he is doomed to be exploited by the capitalist system.
An existence that is constructed based on the form instead of the essence creates annihilation.
A confession sentence: "Money is the sweetest thing in the world!"

Author/Director: Nehir Demirel

Cast:
Osman Ateş
Melek Erdil
Hatice Tezcan
Asu Demircioğlu
Erdoğan Kavaz
Bariş Refikoğlu
Cem Aykut
Aytunç Şabanli
Melihat Melis Beşe
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“It Felt Empty When the Heart Went at First but It Is Alright Now”

Talimhane Theater
27 March 2014 / at 20:00 pm/GAU Spectrum

"Actually, there is something very funny, I know how much money that I am worth. How many people can say that? I have three thousand dollars. Because Mustafa paid that much to me. So, two and a half iPhones."

When Dijana that morning came from Odessa on the ferry to Karakoy Pier dock, she had the dreams of a happy future and the hope of a better life. But those planned for her, rather than dreams were something else. She fell into the hands of human traffickers, her passport was taken away, she was locked up in a house, Dijana was only one of hundreds of women forced into prostitution. She tells us of a history that is hard to endure from time to time with truth and irony. Talimhane Theatre adapts the play to our country which unfortunately plays an important role in human trafficking.

Author: Lucy Kirkwood
Adapter: Seçil Honeywill
Tecnic: Mustafa Dinç
Director: Mehmet Ergen

Cast:
Esra Bezen Bilgin
Güliz Gençoğlu

Awards:

2012 - Afife Jale / Best Actress of the Year

2012 - Sadri Alışık / Best Actress of the Year & Best Actress of the Year in a Leading Role Awards

2012 - Theatre Critics Association Theatre Player of the Year Award

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Mahşer-i Cümbüş
28 March 2014/ at 20:00 pm/ GAU Spectrum

Mahşer-i Cümbüş which is the pioneer of modern improvisational theatre in Turkey was founded by the students of Ankara University - Language and History-Geography Faculty Theatre Department in May 2001. The same year, in September a show called “Theatre Sports" started in Ankara Tenedos cafe. Mahşer-i Cümbüş moved to Istanbul in August of 2003, and has continued its activities in Istanbul.

Mahşer-i Cümbüş which is the pioneer of modern improvisational theater in Turkey brought together "Theatre Sports" which is one of the forms of Improvisation Theatre with the audience for the first time in Turkey. In its 5th year it opened its own stage called "Mahşer-i Cümbüş Hayalhanesi". The team have performed over 500 "Theatre Sports" and 200 "Brainstorm" shows so far.

Mahşer-i Cümbüş which is the pioneer of modern improvisational theatre in Turkey, blazed another trail in 2007 and carried Turkey’s first improvised show called "Instant Picture Show" to the screen and began a new era in Turkish television.

Mahşer-i Cümbüş is an improvisational theatre family with 50 people which started to train their own students in 2006 and currently with four separate graduate student groups (Sürç-ü Lisan, Ehl-i Keyf, Ani Etki Ters Tepki, Mevzu Bahis) present the audience with 6 different shows every week.

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“Partners in Crime”

Bursa State Theatre

29 March 2014/ at 20:00pm / GAU Spectrum

All aspects of male-female relationships are described in the play. The lapses, problems, habits and shortcomings, discernibility, variability, stinginess, laziness, positive and negative situations, happiness and unhappiness in the marriage of married couples have been clearly put on the table. Questioned and confronted. The play develops with a play within the play. A play that describes hazardous solutions exceeded lovingly, with solid fiction and psychological depth, is also dynamic, surprising and raises a smile at the same time.

PS:
2011-2012XII.
Dileklerarası Audience Awards
Best Director / Mustafa Kurt

CAST
Z.A.Sinan Demir
Demet Oran


THE SEAGULL

Bursa State Theatre
30 March 2014 / at 20:00pm / GAU Spectrum

"The Seagull" (1895), which is the classical masterpiece of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, the most important writer of Russian Realism, will be staged by Bursa State Theatre for the first time. The play, which will also take stage at the Ankara State Theatre in the Chekhov 2013-2014 season, takes place at the end of the 19th century in Russia. The play focuses on the end of a century in a troubled atmosphere of rural life away from Moscow. This depression also is a harbinger of impending economic and class changes. An aristocratic family with origins and its neighbourhood which is now coming to an end and failed to keep pace with this change, is the dramatic essence of the play. In such an environment, it is not possible for a person in the play to look with confidence to the future, to be loved in return or to able to go after their dreams. Chekhov unfolds skillfully the common destiny of each story in the environment of impasse and depression.

CAST
Demet Oran
Belgin Bilgin
Cem Arabacioğlu
Yener Sezgin
Reha Taşman
Cansu Yilmaz
Erçin Işik
Nergiz Acar
Murat Divitçioğlu
Adnan Tunali
Burak Berkan
Burak Bektaş
Gökçe Kurt