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ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE

A collection of new tales for Christmas by Andy Cannon, Hamaad Chaudhry, Tony Cownie, Robert Softley Gale, Louise Ironside, Jackie Kay, Denise Mina, Mara Menzies, Karine Polwart, Lynda Radley, Shona Reppe, and Morna Young

Project created and curated by Zinnie Harris. Commissioned by the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh

Lyceum Christmas Tales is an advent calendar of 12 stories for audiences in Edinburgh and beyond, combining new and familiar festive tales penned and performed by some of Scotland’s best-loved writers, musicians and artists.

Directed by Zinnie Harris and Wils Wilson

Tom Piper Designer
Oğuz Kaplangi & MJ McCarthy Sound & Music
Kate Bonney & Simon Wilkinson Lighting Designers
Anna Chaney Director of Photography (Live Show)
Aly Wight Director of Photography and Editing
Sandy Butler Director of Photography (A Wee Bird Was Watching)
Mattie Foulds Sound Engineer (A Wee Bird Was Watching)
Anna Orton Associate Set Designer and Co-Costume Designer
Andrea Cabrera Luna Assistant Director

*Photography by Mihaela Bodlovic

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE

Let me tell you the truth of Tiny Tim
Ahhh – you thought his life was tough and his future grim?
Well, it’s no surprise that’s what you thought
Because of the stories we’ve all been taught…

Written by Robert Softley Gale & performed by Garry Robson

Directed by Wils Wilson

Tom Piper Designer
Oğuz Kaplangi Composer & Musician
Kate Bonney & Simon Wilkinson Lighting Designers
Aly Wight Director of Photography and Editing
Anna Orton Associate Set Designer and Co-Costume Designer
Andrea Cabrera Luna Assistant Director

*Photography by Mihaela Bodlovic

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE

This story takes place in East Africa, where Christmas happens at the Hottest and Driest time of the year and a brother and sister are bored, on their own and badly in need of a Christmas adventure…

Written and performed by Mara Menzies

Directed by Wils Wilson

Tom Piper Designer
Oğuz Kaplangi Composer & Musician
Kate Bonney & Simon Wilkinson Lighting Designers
Aly Wight Director of Photography and Editing
Anna Orton Associate Set Designer and Co-Costume Designer
Andrea Cabrera Luna Assistant Director

*Photo by Andrea Cabrera Luna

TRAVERSE THEATRE / BREAKFAST PLAYS

Dead in the woods, Ren of Ord clears her windpipe of soil, earth and rot. Sworn to enact vengeance, she rises to protect her land and her sisterhood from the fate that befell her that day upon the hill. Rabbit Catcher is a lyrical, mythical lore set within the dark, dense woods of Ord Hill, Inverness.

• Writer – Rebecca Martin
• Director – Gareth Nicholls
• Composer & Sound Designer – Oğuz Kaplangi
• Dramaturg – Eleanor White

This performance is delivered as an audio-only podcast

TRAVERSE THEATRE / BREAKFAST PLAYS

21st December 2012, the day the world was meant to end. The day a cult leader’s apocalyptic predictions failed. Faye and Felix devoted themselves to a doomsday that didn’t come and now, having seen the world get continually worse over the past nine years, they’re confronting their former leader with their findings.

• Writer – Conor O’Loughlin
• Director – Debbie Hannan
• Composer & Sound Designer – Oğuz Kaplangi
• Sound Engineer – Richard Bell
• Dramaturg – Eleanor White

This performance is delivered as an audio-only podcast.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE

Brecht’s classic master and servant comedy is given a gender-switched adaptation by award-winning novelist and playwright Denise Mina.

Writer Bertolt Brecht
Director Murat Daltaban
Designer Tom Piper
Lighting Designer Katharine Williams

Music and Sound Design by Oğuz Kaplangı

A co-production between the Royal Lyceum Theatre and Citizens Theatre in association with DOT Theatre.

CAST

Elaine C. Smith
Steven McNicoll
Natalie Arle-Toyne
Rebecca Banatvala
Richard Conlon
Liam King
Beth Marshall
Joanne McGuinness
Stephanie Payne
Chloé-Ann Tylor

Oğuz Kaplangi (Musician)

*Photography by Mihaela Bodlovic

ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY

Co-commissioned by the RSC and the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh

A STORY OF TREASURED HISTORY, DESPERATE CHOICES AND THE REMARKABLE GERTRUDE BELL

In 1926, the nation of Iraq is in its infancy, and British archaeologist Gertrude Bell is founding a museum in Baghdad. In 2006, Ghalia Hussein is attempting to reopen the museum after looting during the war.

Decades apart, these two women share the same goals: to create a fresh sense of unity and nationhood, to make the world anew through the museum and its treasures. But in such unstable times, questions remain. Who is the museum for? Whose culture are we preserving? And why does it matter when people are dying?

CREDITS

• Writer: Hannah Khalil
• Director: Erica Whyman
• Designer: Tom Piper
• Lighting: Charles Balfour
• Music and Sound: Oğuz Kaplangi
• Movement: Tanoushka Marah
• Dramaturg: David Greig
• Video: Nina Dunn

CAST

• Sarah Agha
• David Birrell
• Houda Echouafni
• Emma Fielding
• Ali Gadema
• Rendah Heywood
• Zed Josef
• Nadi Kemp-Sayfi
• Debbie Korley
• Richard Pryal
• Zara Ramm
• Riad Richie
• Rasoul Saghir

Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh) & Stephen Joseph Theatre (Scarborough)

Why would anyone want to get closer to nature? What’s that about? It’s cruel. Vindictive. Nature will give you cancer, burn your house down then send a flood to wash away your family.

Love. Hate. Good. Evil. Nature. Nurture.

Written by Oliver Emanuel (The 306 Trilogy) and directed by the Traverse’s Gareth Nicholls (Ulster American), The Monstrous Heart is thrilling, chilling and witty, examining afresh the eternal question of whether we ever really change how we’re made.

Is it possible to kill our old selves and create someone new and better in their place?

CREDITS

• Writer – Oliver Emanuel
• Director – Gareth Nicholls
• Lighting Designer – Tigger Johnson
• Set & Costume Designer – Cécile Trémolières
• Composer & Sound Designer – Oğuz Kaplangi

CAST

• Charlene Boyd
• Christine Entwistle

*Photography by Mihaela Bodlovic

Tron Theatre (Glasgow)

‘Douse your hair in treacle, it will act as a thickener. Fill your underpants with sodium bicarbonate and vinegar.
Swallow a live goldfish, make sure it’s a wriggler.
You will be nervous, but no drink, not even a stiffener.
If you do these things you are bound to impress.
And the fairy queen’s magic will take care of the rest…’

So instructs the artful Subtle as he tricks another victim with talk of fairy queens and with his very own ‘Philosopher’s Stone’ at hand to change base metals into gold. His accomplice, the conniving Face, is cleaner of the house and these two rogues set themselves up as confidence tricksters while the master is away.

As money and gullible victims start rolling in it all starts to go very horribly wrong…acclaimed Scottish writer Gary McNair (A Gambler’s Guide to Dying, McGonagall’s Chronicles) has taken on Ben Jonson’s Jacobean farce, re-writing it in rhyming couplets and relocating it from London to Glasgow with brilliant comic effect.

‘Surely they’ll pull it off, oh they’re gonnae…
But the whole thing goes up the swanny!’

Cast: Neshla Caplan, Stephen Clyde, Jo Freer, Robert Jack, Louise McCarthy, Grant O’Rourke.

Adapted by Gary McNair from the original play by Ben Jonson
Directed by Andy Arnold
Designed by Charlotte Lane

Music composed by Oğuz Kaplangı

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.