Theatre

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE / CITIZENS THEATRE

In a new version by Zinnie Harris after John Webster.
A Royal Lyceum Theatre (Edinburgh) and Citizens Theatre (Glasgow) co-production.

Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi is the most thrilling and chilling of the Jacobean revenge tragedies – an exploration of male rage and female resistance as two brothers try and control their sister, block her marriage and repress her agency with fatal results.

Webster’s dark tale of bloody treachery is fuelled and retooled by Zinnie Harris’ insight, vivid imagery and dazzling prose.

CAST (in alphabetical order)
Adam Best Bosola
George Costigan Cardinal
Eleanor Kane Musician
Graham Mackay-Bruce Antonio
Fletcher Mathers Cariola/Doctor
Angus Miller Ferdinand
Kirsty Stuart Duchess
Adam Tompa Delio
Leah Walker Julia

CREATIVE TEAM
Director and Writer Zinnie Harris
Designer Tom Piper
Composer Oguz Kaplangi
LX Designer Ben Ormerod
Sound Designer MJ McCarthy
Video Designer Jamie Macdonald
Movement Director Kally Lloyd-Jones
Fight Director Renny Krupinski
Dramaturg Frances Poet
Casting Director Laura Donnelly
Associate Designer Max Johns
Assistant Director Isla Cowan

Adapted to the theatre stage by Jack Thorne from Aljvide Lindqvist’s bestselling novel and screenplay of the movie “Let The Right One In”. The play was first staged at Royal Court Theatre in London. Murat Daltaban is the director of the Turkish adaptation “Bırak İçeri Gireyim” translated by Melisa Kesmez. The play is staged at ZorluPSM/Istanbul in collaboration with DOT Theatre.

“Let The Right One In” is the story of Oskar and Elias, two kids who experience the burden of being an outcast differently.  Oskar tries to deal with bullying while Elias, the mysterious neighbor of Oskar, lives an endless life stuck in the same age. This terryifing yet touching love story in a neighborhood that is stuck under the dark shadow of continous juvenile murders brings together Atakan Akarsu, Begüm Akkaya, Selçuk Borak, Baran Can Eraslan, Uygar Özçelik, Meriç Rakalar, Şirin Kılavuz Sevinç, Tan Temel and Umutcan Ütebay on the stage.

Music by Oğuz Kaplangı

Illustration: Sadi Güran

‘Yangınlar’ is the Turkish adaptation of Wajdi Mouawad’s 2003 play ‘Incendies’.

Directed by Murat Daltaban

Music and Sound Design by Oğuz Kaplangı

Soundtrack released by Elec-Trip Records

The Other Place (RSC) / Arcola Theatre (London)

*Photography by Mihaela Bodlovic

Oğuz Kaplangı / Composer & Performer

Eugène Ionesco’s classic 1959 play is an uproarious absurdist farce – and a chilling examination of conformism, nationalism, fascism and fundamentalism that has been compared with Orwell’s Animal Farm and Camus’s The Plague. It considers the countless ways in which humans are content to adapt themselves to new and horrifying circumstances, and give in to poisonous ideologies. Alongside its piercing political insights, it is comic, thrillingly theatrical and deeply human, focusing on the unlikely hero of the everyman Berenger, and the possibility of resistance to what might seem inevitable.

Speaking of the music he composed and performed, Oğuz Kaplangı said: “As a theatre music composer and performing musician, I believe the dynamics of music should be in sync with the nuances seen in the daily performances of actors. As such, the tracks, which combine acoustic and electronic elements, organic sound effects and traditional percussion, evolved with the run of the production. Theatre is an art form which enables great flexibility for the musician, and it’s been a wonderful experience of depth and flexibility, bringing the songs together in their final, evolved forms for this album, in which I hope people will find their own stories, as well as those from the play.

It was a pleasure to have recorded bagpipes with Annie Grace  and violin with Özcan Şenyaylar for the music of Rhinoceros.”

This production is presented in a new version by leading Scottish playwright, Zinnie Harris, directed by the celebrated founder of Istanbul’s DOT Theatre, Murat Daltaban.

A co-production between Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and the Edinburgh International Festival in association with DOT Theatre, Istanbul

Oğuz composed and performed the music for Turkish adaptation “Nefesinizi Nasıl Tutarsınız?” of the play “How To Hold Your Breath?” written by Zinnie Harris and directed by Murat Daltaban.

Oğuz Kaplangı / Composer

Written by Bryony Lavery and directed by Mustafa Avkıran at DOT Theatre.

Oğuz Kaplangı / Composer & Performer

Oğuz composed the music for Damage Inc. and performed live on stage. The performance was directed and performed by Murat Daltaban.