SEPT 29: SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Bringing together theatre companies and dance groups from Turkey and abroad with the audience, The Istanbul Theatre Festival, first held in 1989, is an international event organised during three weeks in May. Organised biennially since 2002, the festival hosts carefully selected companies and artists that open up new horizons for both the audience and the art world. Once in every two years, national and international, classical and contemporary renditions are brought to the stage through the lens of the Istanbul Theatre Festival…
The Istanbul Theatre Festival, together with the Avignon Festival, the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, the Grec Festival, has formed the European Network of Mediterranean Festivals entitled Kadmos. Kadmos continues to carry out its activities as a network supporting not only co-productions but also common educational fields. Moreover, The Kadmos Travel Project continues to provide opportunities for young artists and playwrights from different countries to attend the festivals abroad. Together with Piccolo Teatro di Milano, the Istanbul Theatre Festival also took the first steps to implement another educational project entitled the “Mediterranean Project.”
Every year since 1997 the Istanbul Theatre Festival presents two Lifetime Achievement Awards to one local and one international artist. With its educational programmes, co-productions and themes that are related to social problems, the Istanbul Theatre Festival continues to bring new topics and works in performance arts to Istanbul.
Director, Leman Yilmaz; Associate Director, Handan Uzal
PLEASE NOTE:
– The International Program for the 2016 Istanbul Theatre Festival is now closed.
– The Open Call is for local Turkish companies only.
– For the international program, companies are welcomed to perform by Invitation only.
– International companies can update Festival staff about their work by writing to: theatre.fest@iksv.org
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
theatre.fest@iksv.org
