Seyyar Company
Think you know the Bard? Think again!
10 Nov 2024
Migrant actors take on some of Shakespeare’s most iconic speeches! This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before – ‘trippingly on the tongue’. They offer audiences a peep into the lives of the culturally marginalised. And they ask: what happens to the Bard when he is migrated to an alien environment?
Hamlet is a meat-packer, King Lear a construction worker, Caliban a hotel cleaner, Lady Macbeth a housewife looking after children and Shylock washes the dishes in a restaurant...
This is no one Bard: Shakespeare belongs to no one and he belongs to everyone.
Cast & Creatives
Directed by: NAZ YENİ
Dramaturgy by: STEPHANIE TILLOTSON
Lighting by: DAVE BYRNE
Sound by: ANDY SOUTHGATE
Music by: JAN ÇITAK
Singer: HÜSEYİN ERDOĞAN
Stage manager: MİNE ÜÇÜNCÜ
Production assistant: BORA BIÇAKÇI
Assistant director: DİLEK YORULMAZ
Art director: SADİN WARGER
Poster design by: CAN AKSOY
Cast: Jacques (As You Like It) PETEK KIRKBOĞA Caliban (The Tempest) SEDA ÇELİK King Lear (King Lear) SADİN WARGER Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) GÜLİSTAN SARBAS Katherine (Taming of the Shrew) ESER RÜZGAR Prospero (The Tempest) ŞÜKRÜ DEMİR Edmund (King Lear) GÖZDE IŞIK Shylock (Merchant of Venice) EMRE GÜNDOĞDU Launcelot Gobbo (Merchant of Venice) MELTEM AKÇARLI Petrucchio (Hamlet) HAKAN ARICAN Hamlet (Hamlet) BÜKE ERKOÇ Iago (Othello) BURAK BOZDAĞ Witches (Macbeth) DİLEK YORULMAZ
Reviews
48th in ‘80 Picks in Theatre in Edinburgh Fringe 2023’ - LOUREVIEWS
‘The acting is always good ... these people grasp the undercurrents so well. Overall there is plenty to like. It made me think.’ - FringeReview
‘The new settings are relatable to the viewer and draw us in... Beautiful musical excerpts of folk and other selections separate each scene, which add atmosphere to this imaginative show.’ - FringeReview
