ENGIN-AR

CONCEPT·DIRECTION

INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL THEATRE FESTIVAL, 2009

Engin-ar is an ensemble performance unfolding as a party: eight people from different ethnic, cultural, and political backgrounds meeting in a shared space of intimacy, projection and fracture. What begins as social gathering becomes a an encounter to the feeling of belonging and the violence hidden inside the desire to be accepted.

Inspired by the writing of Virginie Despentes, the work confronts the impossible image of the “ideal woman”: seductive but not obscene, successful but not threatening, free but not too free, a fiction that patriarchy endlessly demands and that never truly exists.

Blending dance, text, and live music, Engin-ar moves through humour and storytelling before rupturing into scenes of domination and threat.

When laughter breaks, what truth is left standing?