Only days left for the Turkish theatre group Oyun Atölyesi to perform Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” in London in late May. The play will be staged in Turkish as part of Globe to Globe, a six-week event celebrating Shakespeare with productions in 37 languages from Turkish and Greek to Mandarin and Swahili.
Acclaimed Turkish stage and screen actor Haluk Bilginer is getting ready to play the Roman general Mark Antony in the Shakespeare tragedy Antony and Cleopatra in late May in London. But with a twist. The play will be staged in Turkish as part of London’s six-week Globe to Globe event, with plays by Shakespeare performed in 37 languages from Turkish and Swahili to sign language for the World Shakespeare Festival. Globe to Globe is part of the World Shakespeare Festival, celebrating the Bard and his work, which, in turn, is part of the London 2012 Festival. The plays in various languages are being staged in Shakespeare’s Globe on the south bank of River Thames, the replica of the original 17th century theatre of the English playwright.
Last month’s performance of the Trojan War play Troilus and Cressida from New Zealand’s theatre company Ngakau Toa in Maori made headlines when the play incorporated a haka (warrior dance) and waiata (song). Many will be familiar with the haka from New Zealand’s rugby matches. The warrior dance took a whole new meaning when a special haka was created for the scene in which Achilles calls his people to help him find and kill Hector.
Remember him from EastEnders?
Among the other performances are a group from South Sudan staging Pericles in Juba Arabic, Comedy of Errors from Afghanistan meeting the audience in Dari, Pericles in Greek by the Greek National Theatre, and the National Theatre of China performing Richard III in Mandarin. You can buy tickets to the plays in Olympic-themed ticket packages that sell under Globe biathlon, triathlon, pentathlon, even offering a discount to see whole 37 productions, if anyone is up for it.
The Turkish production of Antony and Cleopatra (Antonius ile Kleopatra) will be staged on 26 and 27 May by Haluk Bilginer’s Istanbul-based company, Oyun Atölyesi, that has staged Timon of Athens, Macbeth and Othello in the past. Bilginer, perhaps, is best known to the UK audience not through his stage performances in the UK or minor roles in Hollywood productions, such as the Warren Beatty comedy Ishtar, but through his role as the loveable womanizer Mehmet Osman in the British soap EastEnders in the 1980s.
Bilginer will be accompanied by Zerrin Tekindor as Cleopatra, and the Globe regular Kevork Malikyan in the role of Enobarbus, Antony’s lieutenant, who will utter the famous lines about Cleopatra, “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety,” or “Yıpratamaz zaman onun güzelliğini, solduramaz rengini bozamaz ahengini.”
(Kaynak: BRITISH COUNCIL)
Acclaimed Turkish stage and screen actor Haluk Bilginer is getting ready to play the Roman general Mark Antony in the Shakespeare tragedy Antony and Cleopatra in late May in London. But with a twist. The play will be staged in Turkish as part of London’s six-week Globe to Globe event, with plays by Shakespeare performed in 37 languages from Turkish and Swahili to sign language for the World Shakespeare Festival. Globe to Globe is part of the World Shakespeare Festival, celebrating the Bard and his work, which, in turn, is part of the London 2012 Festival. The plays in various languages are being staged in Shakespeare’s Globe on the south bank of River Thames, the replica of the original 17th century theatre of the English playwright.
Last month’s performance of the Trojan War play Troilus and Cressida from New Zealand’s theatre company Ngakau Toa in Maori made headlines when the play incorporated a haka (warrior dance) and waiata (song). Many will be familiar with the haka from New Zealand’s rugby matches. The warrior dance took a whole new meaning when a special haka was created for the scene in which Achilles calls his people to help him find and kill Hector.
Remember him from EastEnders?
Among the other performances are a group from South Sudan staging Pericles in Juba Arabic, Comedy of Errors from Afghanistan meeting the audience in Dari, Pericles in Greek by the Greek National Theatre, and the National Theatre of China performing Richard III in Mandarin. You can buy tickets to the plays in Olympic-themed ticket packages that sell under Globe biathlon, triathlon, pentathlon, even offering a discount to see whole 37 productions, if anyone is up for it.
The Turkish production of Antony and Cleopatra (Antonius ile Kleopatra) will be staged on 26 and 27 May by Haluk Bilginer’s Istanbul-based company, Oyun Atölyesi, that has staged Timon of Athens, Macbeth and Othello in the past. Bilginer, perhaps, is best known to the UK audience not through his stage performances in the UK or minor roles in Hollywood productions, such as the Warren Beatty comedy Ishtar, but through his role as the loveable womanizer Mehmet Osman in the British soap EastEnders in the 1980s.
Bilginer will be accompanied by Zerrin Tekindor as Cleopatra, and the Globe regular Kevork Malikyan in the role of Enobarbus, Antony’s lieutenant, who will utter the famous lines about Cleopatra, “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety,” or “Yıpratamaz zaman onun güzelliğini, solduramaz rengini bozamaz ahengini.”
(Kaynak: BRITISH COUNCIL)
