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Ayşe Draz is a performance maker with a fluid identity sometimes on the stage, at times on the page and when she is not in view, she explores together with various artists creative themes behind the scenes. She collaborates with talented artists from every corner of the creative universe and with a fluid identity she dances between stages, pages and behind the scenes. She is interested in the collaborative process, personal materials and translating ideas across different artistic disciplines. Her recent works employ theatrical tools to explore the creation of various situations that invite the audience to actively participate, transforming the experience into a shared journey of discovery.
NEWS — “Stage at the Museum” is now happening!

STAGE AT THE MUSEUM, with the theme "Encounters and Beyond," will be at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum on September 4–7, 2025. Performing Arts Days, which have been ongoing for many years with the main sponsorship of the Sabancı Foundation, bring together diverse disciplines with their multilayered program, artistically directed by Ayşe Draz.

Focusing on the intersensory interplay of the performing arts, this year's STAGE AT THE MUSEUM focuses on the moments when the body touches art, the everyday touches the museum, the past touches the future, and the stage touches the audience. Through words echoing on stage, performances encountered in the garden, conversations in the foyer, and workshops, it aims to create new areas of contact not only during playtime but at every moment of the day.

The main stage program includes the season's standout productions, Tomorrow Maybe" which explores future possibilities with ironic and poetic language; Girls and Boys, which won the "Most Successful Actress of the Year" award at the Afife Theatre Awards and explores domestic violence through a woman's life story; and L'Addition" which stands out with its international prestige. Premiering at the Avignon Theatre Festival and considered one of the festival's most talked-about productions, L'Addition engages audiences with its humorous and provocative narrative while also confronting disturbing questions. This remarkable production will be staged in Turkey for the first time as part of STAGE AT THE MUSEUM. Theatre students can apply through SSM's social media accounts to watch the play free of charge, with limited availability.

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NEWS — “Yarın Belki de” is premiered on January 25th, 2025.

 "Yarın Belki de" is an adaptation of Tomorrow’s Parties, a play by Forced Entertainment—one of the leading ensembles of contemporary theater and a pioneer of the devising method—tailored to today and the present-day Turkey. Set on a minimalist stage framed by colorful carnival lights, two performers engage in a verbal duel reminiscent of a poetic contest, reflecting critically, ironically, and humorously on the current era while pondering possibilities for the future.

Guided by the performers, the audience is taken on a journey of curiosity, laughter, excitement, and reflection, exploring speculations about what the future might hold. From today’s hopes and fears to utopian and dystopian predictions, sci-fi scenarios, political nightmares, and absurd fantasies, the play uncovers a wide spectrum of potential and impossible futures. "Yarın Belki de" offers an entertaining, poignant, and at times, wildly imaginative perspective on the possibilities of what lies ahead.


RECENT WORKS

2017—2021







© AYŞE DRAZ, 2024