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The organizations and brands supporting Datça · Karia Theatre Season.
In the land where the gods watched over the sea, where philosophy first found its voice — eight stages descend from Datça's sky across eight months.
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The organizations and brands supporting Datça · Karia Theatre Season.
The Project
From October to May, one play every month. A selection of mostly solo, narratively powerful, award-winning independent productions by young companies — meeting Datça's audience.
The ancient soil of Karia takes the stage once again, under the same sky that once watched over the Aegean's first philosophers and gods.
Every play is designed not just to be watched, but to be felt — moments that draw you in and leave a mark.
Eight plays, eight companies, one calendar — production and accommodation planning managed under a single roof.
Program
A calendar built around Datça's seasonal rhythm — eight stops, each carrying the meaning of its own month.
Season opener, on the first Saturday of October
1,000 TL Datça Bülent Ecevit Kültür Merkezi Get TicketsThe weekend before Atatürk Commemoration Day (10 November)
1,000 TL Datça Bülent Ecevit Kültür Merkezi Get TicketsA quiet weekend before the New Year rush
1,000 TL Datça Bülent Ecevit Kültür Merkezi Get TicketsA regular weekend before the mid-year school break
1,000 TL Datça Bülent Ecevit Kültür Merkezi Get TicketsAlmond-blossom season — winter's liveliest weekend
1,000 TL Datça Bülent Ecevit Kültür Merkezi Get TicketsAhead of International Women's Day (8 March)
1,000 TL Datça Bülent Ecevit Kültür Merkezi Get TicketsThe first play of spring — the month's first Saturday
1,000 TL Datça Bülent Ecevit Kültür Merkezi Get TicketsOn the eve of Mother's Day (9 May) — the season finale
1,000 TL Datça Bülent Ecevit Kültür Merkezi Get TicketsSelection
Eight stages descending from the sky, settling into Datça one by one across eight months.
3 October · Saturday · 19:30
Written by: Çağla Yağmur Doğan, Gamze Güler · Director: Şevval Öztay · Performer: Çağla Yağmur Doğan · No27 Kolektif
Left alone on stage during a lighting rehearsal, Yasemin's journey from childhood to the present becomes the story of a woman searching for her own voice and strength.
7 November · Saturday · 19:30
Written & Performed by: Berfin Ertan · Director: Berfin Ertan, Hakan Emre Ünal · Kiki Kolektif
A story of growing up and learning on an island where Greeks and Turks lived side by side.
5 December · Saturday · 19:30
Written & Performed by: İbrahim Barulay · Director: Onur Yalçınkaya
Through the story of a child who can turn the sounds he hears into melody, the play explores children's rights and inequality.
9 January · Saturday · 19:30
Created, Directed & Performed by: Filiz Bozkuş Al · Sound, Music & Lighting: Kerem Al · Gong Sahne
A wordless theatrical dance performance — a ritual that traces the inner journey from birth to adulthood entirely through the language of the body, without a single word spoken.
13 February · Saturday · 19:30
Written & Performed by: Sinem Koşar · Director: Arif M. Güney · Velhasıl Tiyatro
Refusing to be crushed under the labels of "outsider" and "servant," Havva never gives up reading, laughing or dreaming — her story becomes a meditation on womanhood, violence and hope. Inspired by Vüsat O. Bener's short story "Havva" and the character "Tina" from Irmak Zileli's novel "Son Bakış."
6 March · Saturday · 19:30
Written & Performed by: Gül Öykü Su Okur · Istanbul State Conservatory, Acting Department
An independent stage experience on our masks and the search for an "alter ego" — where fragility, once shared, escapes loneliness, and the audience is not merely watching but part of the experience. A true life story that travels from Kadıköy's alternative stages to Gümüşlük and on to the Edinburgh Fringe.
3 April · Saturday · 19:30
Adapted by: Sümeyye Özbay · Director: Çınar Taşdemir · Performer: Alperen Abdullah Türkekul · Tiyatro Arçura
Through Abdullah's long night, caught between narcissism and self-loathing, unfolds a dance of manipulation, toxic relationships and the pull between reckoning and escape. With a single chair and four light stands, a surreal performance where physical theatre meets narrative theatre. Freely adapted from Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's short story "Abdullah Efendi'nin Rüyaları."
8 May · Saturday · 19:30
Written & Performed by: Enes Turan · Director: Sercan Gedik · Produced by: NON Tiyatro
In a world where dancing, singing — even loving — is forbidden, a child torn from their mother searches for both their mother and themselves, in a story of freedom, oppression and belonging. Brought to the stage from a true life story. The season finale.