The unforgettable name of Turkish literature, Sait Faik Abasıyanık’s stories come to life in the theater stage. Actress and Children’s Books Writer Özgür Özgülgün, written and played, directed by Senan Kara “The life of the story of the story of Sait Faik”, the play on April 15-16-17 at the Ataturk Cultural Center meets the audience. Theater actor and children’s book writer, Özgülgün, in this game, pursues heroes in the stories of the great master Sait Faik. The stories that Sait Faik tells the island people, nature and Istanbul combine with the magic of the theater. The touchstone of our literature of the Republican era, Özgülgün in the game where Sait Faik Abasıyanık, the most original author of our contemporary storytelling, traces the story heroes of our story, carries the universal humanity in the stories of Sait Faik. The game draws attention as a production that will attract everyone’s attention to everyone who wants to trace Sait Faik’s stories. This game, which is carefully prepared for every detail from decor design to music and light design, takes the audience on a both emotional and intellectual journey accompanied by story heroes. We came together with Özgür Özgülgün on the occasion of this game. We talked about both the game and acting.
This is the greatest excitement and happiness in the world
How are you, what do you think of life as an artist?
Thanks. Let’s say “new game, new excitement and birth pains”. The biggest excitement and happiness in the world is putting a new play on stage as a theater artist. Our main duty is to fill this area. We take a long journey to trace the story heroes of our master storyteller Sait Faik Abasıyanık, who is accepted by the society and accepted as the windblinding of our literature, to search for him on the stage and to share what we found with our audience. Our minds, our body, our voice, our emotions briefly opened a wing to the freedom to play in the stories of the master with our instrument and in the theater scene, where our soul belongs …
Which format of acting excites you more?
Acting is like a square square. The theater is the main square, but cinema is different disciplines you will show yourself on TV. There is no apology of the theater, but on the cinema and TV, there are director, cinematographer and fiction tables, which are your savior in emergencies. Personal idea is completely different. The excitement and pleasure are long -term, the marathon requires as much discipline as running.
We tried to move the feeling that every line awakens with us
Why acting? What does acting and play mean to you?
My biggest dream is to open my inner world to the audience, to talk to the child inside me constantly, to take what I find, what I hear, from my own shelter. I will try to live with this intensity of emotion from my first day to my last breath. With my self -esteem, I will try to do this by sharing what I discover with the morality of my profession. When I started this game, my biggest chance was our director Senan Kara. I tried to apply his talent, mastery and director’s director to the word of the word. I have a compass my teachings. He always said sincerity, sincerity and sincerity. He’s right because Sait Faik master’s heart is beautiful, he has plenty of love, fish -eyed, sea -scented, storyteller of lonely. We said that it is a must to be simple, so sincere in telling him and his story heroes. When applying the stories in a fiction in stage traffic, choosing music, designing decor and costumes, we thought about everything and moved. We tried to carry the feeling that every line that he tries to feel by staying in the moments of our inner acting. The last word will be your audience. There is excitement and so much … I say this game. Like the Burgase lover, whose pockets smells of sesame seeds, “No matter where it comes from the mountains, birds, sea, human, grass, insect, flower. No matter where it comes from!
The route is not just people …
How did the idea of playing play about Sait Faik Abasıyanık’s stories?
Sait Faik Usta is the storyteller who describes another person in his stories and describes the world so clear and simple that he deserves to be played on the stage. The route that sails towards dreams is not only people, but also animals, herbs, flowers, fish, sky, clouds, literary literary.
What is the equivalent of Sait Faik Abasıyanık?
We can better understand life thanks to the master who makes you feel with his writings. I can say that it is the best of my responsibilities to move the master in every frame of life to the stage. Everything begins with loveing a person! I need to love …
I traveled between the details
Can you tell us about the content of the game?
I wrote the game like theater text. Already published as a book. It starts and ends with the narrator who pursues all the known story heroes of the master. I traveled between the details. I wrote the candidate, tradesmen, fishermen, children, withdrawn into their shells, serenity, and tried to write. More precisely, I called the details of what he wrote. I shared what I could find. In the view of nature and human beings, in the author-reader relationship, I took the traces of modern storytelling in the island geography. I thought he was a stance of respect for his position in the history of literature.
How do you feel about your game will be staged in AKM?
The fact that the premiere of the game is made in AKM makes me very excited as an actor. We all know the place and importance of AKM in the history of Turkish theater. The opportunity is not available to be worthy of the stage and the audience. And we will try to carry the most beautiful until you say curtain. Together as a team! In the theater scene where my soul belongs, we look forward to the day we will meet with our audience in our journey to the trail of the story heroes of Sait Faik Usta. Sometimes a story works into human beings at an unexpected moment and opens other doors. We’re looking for the discovered echoes of written stories. We wait, sir!
The audience and the reader will decide this
How can you share how to be both a player and the author of a game?
It is very valuable to be everything in a game. Especially being the author and actor is much more valuable. Transforming life into a work of art is an ideal presented by Oscar Wilde. I think that disciplines that have not been left to be converted into a work of art can be made only by feeling. I think the audience and the reader will decide. The situation of giving everything we love is unique to the artist is unique. The rest is up to the audience who filled the hall that night …
Can there be games about our other writers or stories in the future?
In the future, there are ideas in our minds such as carrying the precious writers of our world of literature to the stage. We think about how to add this to life. We are aware of great responsibility, but we are ambitious about it.
To know the past …
Why is it important to do such work on our master writers?
The audience is always right and wants to watch beautiful works. It is the responsibility of all of us to carry this request of the audience to the stage with the works of our valuable writers. After writing, the works that come out of the author and the lines on the curtain excite everyone. To do this is raising our appetite. In order to know the past, we must do it in the taste of respect for literature.
