ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News
The first show staged as part of Garajistanbul’s “Istanpoli” project, “Kassas,” is taking to the stage again to mark the close of the project, this time everywhere in Istanbul.
“Istanpoli” means “towards the city” in Greek and it is supposedly one of the ancient names of Istanbul. The first performance by this project, “Kassas” starts a trip towards the city from Beyoğlu.
As one of the biggest projects supported by the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency’s theater and performing arts directorate, “Kassas” starts its Istanbul tour in Kağıthane today. It will be staged in Kartal, Küçükçekmece, Bahçeşehir, Maltepe, Zeytinburnu, Tuzla, Ümraniye and Samandıra before wrapping up in Güngören on Dec. 8. All performances will be free of charge.
Kassas means “a person who tells absurd and gibberish stories” in ancient Turkish. The project presents Övül and Mustafa Avkıran on the same stage as Istanbul street vendors. The main axis of the project is to try to understand this new world in which the vendor turns out to be an actor and the actor becomes a vendor.