Klaipėda Drama Theater is at the festival with Requiem

The 30th Istanbul Theater Festival will present Requiem, written and directed by Dmitry Krymov, one of the greatest living masters of contemporary Russian theater and five-time Golden Mask award winner, on the Harbiye City Theater stage at 20.30 on the evenings of November 11 and 12.

This modern masterpiece, which brings the intertwined narratives of a fragmented world to the stage, is brought to the stage by the Klaipėda Drama Theater, which has a deep-rooted history of ninety years. In the play to be watched in Lithuanian with Turkish surtitles, Darius Meškauskas / Edvardas Brazys, Elzė Jankūnaitė / Barbora Jokubauskaitė will star. There will be a question-answer session with director Dmitry Krymov after the play on November 11.

THE DIRECTOR DEDICATES REQUIEM TO CHILDREN

The stage experience of Krymov, who is the son of the legendary Soviet theater and cinema director Anatoly Efros and started his theater career as a stage designer, makes itself felt in the visual world and powerful staging of Requiem. Requiem, which extends from Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore to Shakespeare's Hamlet and Ophelia, to the harsh reality of wars and losses in today's world, brings together characters, eras and stories that seem distant from each other in a common confrontation.

Children walking behind their teachers, a young couple passionately connected to each other, characters pursuing a better future, turn into the heroes of a meta-narrative about loss and hope, innocence and violence, as the play progresses. Dmitry Krymov, who left his country after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, dedicates Requiem to children who do not lose hope even in the darkest times: born and raised or just born; To all the children who have fallen into this strange, cruel, sometimes alien and hostile world...