Manifesto for Another World: Voices from Beyond the Dark (2018)
Voices from beyond the Dark is a play based on Kerry Kennedy’s book, Speak Truth to Power. The play, written by Ariel Dorfman, gives voice to human rights activists from around the world.
Staged reading took place at CASA, Lethbridge, AB on December 17, 2018 in celebration of the 70th anniversary of universal declaration of Human Rights. Sponsored by the Centre for Culture and Community at the University of Lethbridge.
Cast
William Ramp
Sahar Siavashi
Christopher Churchill
Creative Team
Playwright: Ariel Dorfman
Director: Özgür Çınar
Research Assistant: Jennifer Tarnowsky
Bosphorus (2018)
Bosphorus is a play inspired by the life and writings of Hrant Dink, an Armenian journalist, writer and human rights activist who was assassinated on January 19, 2007 in Turkey. The play tells the story of Nedim, a friend of Hrant’s, following the funeral of the latter in Istanbul. It presents a phantasmagoric sailing of the two friends in Bosphorus and the conversation of the two old friends—with Nedim being of Turkish background—about their common past. What can be described as Nedim’s daydreaming encompasses a requiem for Hrant while the Armenian genocide and ultra-nationalism in Turkey set the background for the entire text with the introduction of a third character, Yener, whose anti-Armenian stances are politically inscribed into the common sense of the majority.
Staged reading took place at Arts Court, Ottawa, ON on September 7, 2018.
Cast
Jeff Lefebvre (Hrant)
Kelsey Rideout (Nedim)
Troy Arsenian (Yener)
Creative Team
Playwrights:
Gorune Aprikian and Eric de Roquefeuil
Director:
Özgür Çınar
Video Art:
Alejandro Salgado Cendales
Sound Designer:
Kerem Eker
Negative Theatre acknowledges gracious support from
City of Ottawa
Voices in Dialogue
Research Institute on Turkey
Ottawa Fringe
Playwrights:
Gorune Aprikian and Eric de Roquefeuil
Director:
Özgür Çınar
Video Art:
Alejandro Salgado Cendales
Sound Designer:
Kerem Eker
Negative Theatre acknowledges gracious support from
City of Ottawa
Voices in Dialogue
Research Institute on Turkey
Ottawa Fringe
13 Tableaux of a Precarious Worker (2018)
13 Tableaux of a Precarious Worker is a play about the growth of precarious work and its impacts on individuals in the neoliberal era. It tells the untold story of this insecure, non-standard, part-time, temporary form of employment that leads to the lack of benefits, low wages, dangerous working conditions, juggling multiple jobs, longer hours of work and unpredictable futures for workers. The storyline of the play consists of 13 different scenes and stories of precarious workers—from different occupations and sectors.
Play development early production took place on
May 1 & 2, 2018 at 7:30pm at Arts Court Theatre (2 Daly Avenue Ottawa, ON)Cast
Lauriane Lehouillier
Kelsey Rideout
Özgür Çınar
Priyanka Gopaltiska
Letycia Henriques
Avan
David Whiteley (cellist)
Creative Team
Playwrights:
Özgür Çınar and Gülden Özcan
Director:
Özgür Çınar
Stage Manager:
Kumru Bilici
Assistant Stage Manager:
Yasin Kokarca
Lighting Designer:
Fraser MacKinnon
Costume and Prop Designer:
Valerie Pariseau
Video Art:
Alejandro Salgado Cendales
Sound Operator:
Kerem Eker
Graphic and Poster Designer:
Erkal Tülek
Co-authors Özgür Çınar and Gülden Özcan thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for its financial support in research-creation stage of this play.
Negative Theatre acknowledges gracious support from
Mayworks Ottawa
OPIRG Carleton
CUPE 4600
City of Ottawa
Special thanks to
Bora Erdağı
Irene Jansen
Kelti Cameron
Multinational gRape Corporations (2010)
Outstanding Fringe Production, nominated at the 2011 Prix Rideau Awards
“multinational gRape corporations” is an innovative and critical play nourished by negative dialectics. The play is about a couple whose lives have been taken over by the ongoing advertisements and fragments in particular, institutions and bigger authorities in general. It reflects an imminent critique of the effects of culture industry which we are heavily experiencing in our every day lives. By the same token, the play is also a critique of US war in Iraq, Fascist regimes in the world, Immigration policy of Canada, current economic crises, ongoing attempts of the governments to promote precarious work and ecological crisis. Through unfolding the contradictions inherit in these realities the show tries to get the audiences think critically about these issues.
