Love goes on strike in Famagusta next month with a free-of-charge performance of the musical comedy Aşk Grevi at the Rauf Raif Denktaş Cultural and Congress Centre next Saturday. Lefkoşa Municipality Theatre also visit the venue on Monday and Tuesday to offer two 8pm performances to their latest play Ev (Home) for which entrance is priced at 10TL. A municipality spokesman said both plays were important and relevant for the country. In Aşk Grevi, (Love Strike), Kyrenia and Çataklöy municipality theatres joined forces for the entertaining production of Savaş Aylılıç’s adaption of the 411BC classic comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes.
The play is based on the tale of a women’s sex strike intended to force their men to declare peace in the long drawn out Peloponnesian War, but which serves to inflame the battle of the sexes. The 8pm show is in Turkish but features music and dance and is directed by T Murat Demirbaş and Derman Atik, who also features the stage. Music is directed by Kemal Atik and performed by Guluşan Gazanfer and dance choreography is by Phridon Kondselidze. Lefkoşa Municipality Theatre playwright Aliye Ummanel’s original play, Ev, also examines the situation of women in relation to the recent history of war, emigration and property issue with a cast of five female characters.
By Anne Canalp, Cyprus Today
