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Gece Vardiyası (Night  Shift)
Ayşe Draz directed Gece Vardiyası (Night Shift), one of three short plays that make up Norwegian playwright Demian Vitanza's Londinium, a tribute to London, the Thames and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, following three lifeguards from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution spending their night shift at their station on the River Thames, grappling with the death of a mother they could not save. The three plays are united by the theme of catastrophe and bound together by threads of loss, mourning and grief.

The production was part of GalataPerform's Yeni Metin Projesi (New Text Project), a festival dedicated to discovering new playwrights and creating space for contemporary playwriting in Turkey, held for the ninth time between 15–24 December 2020, with the support of the Norwegian Embassy in Turkey. That year, the festival's theme was "the future", a concept that had taken on an urgent, unsettling charge with the onset of the pandemic. Unable to gather in person, the festival reinvented itself entirely online, unfolding across YouTube premieres, live and recorded Zoom performances, play readings, workshops, online conversations, social media projects and panels. Draz's production was recorded and shared as a short film, making the constraints of the moment part of the work's own form and reach.

20 December 2020, 18:30 Venue: yeniperform.com

Written by: Marco Demian Vitanza
Translated by: Ferdi Çetin
Directed by: Ayşe Draz
Cast: Kayhan Açıkgöz, Kerem Arslanoğlu, Hakan Emre Ünal

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