The conversation brought together artists and institutions to trace the relationship between local content and formal innovation in contemporary Turkish performance, opening up broader questions about theatre's place within cultural policy in Turkey. Participants included Dikmen Gürün, Filiz Sızanlı, Kerem Kurdoğlu, Melih Kıraç, Mustafa Kaplan, Naz Erayda, and S. Buse Yıldırım.