Istanbulimpro (Turkey): ONCE UPON A TIME…

Photo: Istanbulimpro archive

Friday, November 25 at 9pm

The performance is in English.

Istanbulimpro theatre, founded in 2007, combines traditional theatre approaches with elements of music and physical theatre and contemporary improvisation principles. They create regular theatre programme on their stage Istanbulimpro Sahne where they also organize an international improvisational theatre festival and an international storytelling festival every year. They also explore applied improvisation, that is use of principles and tools of theatre improvisation on non-artistic, wider areas of society, and are also members of the Applied Improv Network. In 2009 they were awarded The Best Progressive Theatre Group of Turkey.

Performance Once Upon A Time… plays with the idea of collective unconscious with with the universal story structure, which stimulates the performer’s as well as the spectator’s imagination. The event, interlaced with musicality of an excellent Turkish musician Evren Gülseven and movement and singing images of participating artists, will first and foremost follow the the audience’s wishes at every step.

Concept: Koray Tarhan and Tolga Erdoğan
Performance: Alenka Marinič, Jacob Banigan, Koray Bülent Tarhan, Peter Frankl, Zeynep Özyurt Tarhan
Music: Evren Gülseven
Lights: Borut Cajnko