The Yunus Emre Institute in London is staging a special performance of Karagöz & Hacivat shadow play as part of the annual celebration of National Sovereignty and Children’s Day in Turkey on 23 April. This famous play, which is aimed at kids aged 4 and older, but suitable for all the family, will be performed […]
Originating from the Ottoman era, Karagöz and Hacivat are among Turkey’s most famous and popular theatre characters, a perfect foil for each other as they seek to solve everyday problems. Karagöz represents the illiterate, but straightforward general public, while Hacivat is from the educated classes, always speaking in a posh form of Ottoman Turkish to […]
“In glorious Istanbul, about 100 years ago lived Hürmüz and her seven husbands…”, so wrote Sadık Şendil, one of Turkey’s greatest contemporary playwrights. Such was its popularity when this classic Turkish comedy made its debut in 1967 that it remained on stage in a sell-out run for two years before being turned into a […]
