The Play That Reached Turkish Audiences for the First Time: Man’s Teardrop

While the IMM City Theatres are preparing to stage 27 plays next month, the vaudeville 'Man's Teardrop' adapted from Chekhov is preparing to meet Turkish audiences for the first time.

Celebrating its 110th anniversary this year, the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) City Theaters will be performing 27 plays in April. A rich repertoire of works by classical and contemporary writers, from Macit Koper to Bulgakov, Arthur Miller to Eftal Gülbudak, awaits theatergoers at the Darülbedayi stage this month. The new play of IMM City Theaters, "Yoldan Çıkan Oyunu" (The Play That Came Out of the Road), which has reached from London to Broadway, will also be meeting with the audience for the first time.

While IMM City Theatres prepared 27 plays this month, these include many plays such as Kite's Tail, Witch's Cauldron, To Live or To Die, My Bicycle Was Blue, Ifigenya, Moon, Carmela!, War and Peace, Dome of the Sky, Labeled Coffin, Tartuffe, I Am Not Medea, The Beginning of the Second Act, Phosphorescent Cevriye, Godot Came, An Enemy of the People, Invincible, Oscar, Dog's Heart, You Are More Beautiful Than Istanbul, My Little Star, Dream, Cloud in Love, The Nutcracker, The Watchman and the Postman, and invite their audiences to the stage.

The Story of a Man Defeated by Love

The IMM City Theaters stage will also host the Yugoslav Drama Theater's play 'Man's Teardrop' in April. Written by Anton Chekhov and directed by Aleksandar Popovski, the play tells the tragic and ironic story of a group of people who are stranded in a tavern during an apocalyptic storm, defeated in love and lost in time. The play, which is Chekhov's modern interpretation of the banality and narrow-mindedness of male chauvinism and patriarchy as a social order, stars Vojin Cetkovic, Sanja Markovic, Nenad Jezdic, Miodrag Dragicevic, Zoran Cvijanovic, Milena Zivanovic, Milos Samolov, Teodora Dragicevic, and Teodor Vincic. It will be performed on April 29 at the Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage.

Source: Decision