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Theater festival closes with
magnificent ceremony
ISTANBUL- Hürriyet Daily News
The southern province of Adana has bid farewell to its one-month Sabancı
International Theater Festival. The festival was closed with a spectacular ceremony,
during which Dutch ensemble Closed Act performed an open air show, which drew
big interest from locals
Dutch ensemble Closed Act performed a street show titled
‘Invasion’ at the closing ceremony of the Sabancı
International Theater Festival.
The 15th Sabancı International Adana Theater Festival,
organized by the Sabancı Foundation and State Theaters in
the southern province of Adana, ended on April 30 with a
magnificent ceremony.
The festival, which opened on Mach 27 World Theater Day
this year, has become a traditional event due to the
memory of late businessman Sakıp Sabancı. “Exactly 15
years ago, we set out with a small-scale local festival built
upon late Sakıp Sabancı’s dream of converting Adana into a
center of arts and culture. Today, we take pride in seeing
world-renowned theaters competing to come to Adana.
Our festival constitutes a role model for numerous festivals
in Turkey in many ways,” said Chairman of the Sabancı Foundation Board of Trustees Guler Sabancı at the opening of the
event.
In the closing ceremony, Dutch ensemble Closed Act, which earned the admiration of people through their street shows in
Adana in past years, presented a street show called “Invasion,” wearing huge dinosaur costumes on the Uğur Mumcu Square.
The performers, who walked from Atatürk Street to Uğur Mumcu Square with torches, captured the attention of thousands of
locals in the city.
Festival highlights
This year the festival, which hosted 23 theater groups, 16 from Turkey and seven from abroad, in Adana and Istanbul, opened
with a show by Italian Studio Festi Group on the Seyhan River. To reach more audiences, the opening and closing events of
the festival are performed at open-air venues every year.
Exclusively for the festival’s 15th anniversary, Turkey hosted two renowned foreign groups for the first time. One was a
Bollywood musical, “Taj Express.” The international musical of India, “Taj Express, Love Has a New Address,” which takes its
name from the famous Taj Express train that has been carrying travelers across India since 1964, came to Turkey for the first
time and performed for audiences in Istanbul and Adana.
The Globe Theatre, which staged the play “King Lear” in Adana and in Istanbul, was also in Turkey for the first time. The play
was staged with the signature of director Bill Buckhurst, who is known for his success in directing Shakespeare plays, and is
one of the most famous plays of the Globe Theatre due to its impressive visual quality.
Among the other highlights of the festival, the Czech Srnec Black Light Theater, which is known to be the first ensemble in the
world to stage “Black Theater,” presented “Antologia.” Also, Macedonia’s Skopje National Institution of Turkish Theater
performed a contemporary family drama in “All My Sons.”
The Adana Theater Festival has become international in scope within a very short period of time. Over the past 14 years, it
has hosted 70 international theater ensembles from 66 countries.
This year within the scope of the festival, the Sakıp Sabancı Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to renowned theater
actor Rutkay Aziz. Aziz is the chairperson of the Nazım Hikmet Culture and Art Foundation.
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Bunt, schrill, erschreckend, faszinierend
"Close Act" lässt die Dinos wieder auferstehen.
Holzminden (21.05.13). Bunt, schrill, erschütternd, ergreifend,
faszinierend… Kaum ein Begriff, der nicht zutrifft für das Straßentheater-
Festival 2013. Es war wieder ein Spektakel, wie es die Holzmindener
lieben – und ein Publikum, wie die Künstler es lieben. Geschätzte 50.000
Besucher bevölkerten an den drei Festival-Tagen die Stadt, und ließen
sich einfach mitreißen von der verblüffenden Vielfalt, die das Theater auf
der Straße zu bieten hat. (nig)
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„Close Act“ holt den Publikumspreis

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Die Gewinnergruppe „Close Act“ bestaunt die Siegertrophäe.
Holzminden (21.05.13). Bei elf Gruppen unterschiedlichster Gattungen
fällt die Wahl schwer: Gibt man einer Großproduktion seine Stimme,
oder bevorzugt man eines der kleineren Stücke? Das Holzmindener
Publikum weiß offenbar beides zu würdigen: So holte die spektakuläre
Dino-Inszenierung "Close Act" zwar den Publikumspreis, aber auf Platz
zwei kam bereits die anrührende Darstellung „Somente“ vom deutsch-
polnischen „Theotro Só“. (nig)
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189.000 Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (IM) des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit,
darunter 3000 bis 3500 Bundesbürger. - (AFP / AFP )
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