Çirkin / Freak

Turkey's First 360° Immersive Theatre Experience.

Featuring 20 projectors, digital imaging infrastructure, and live streaming capability, Çirkin (Freak) will take place at Hope Alkazar, Turkey's most comprehensive experiential venue. For the first time, the audience will immerse themselves in the stage and visuals, offering a unique theatre experience.

The play will be showcased twice a week for six months and will premiere at the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) Theatre Festival.

Hope Alkazar

Incorporating the Alkazar Dream and RESET DIGITAL experiences into its program, HOPE Alkazar, which has hosted 200,000 visitors so far, is hosting digital immersive experiences in the city with its advanced digital infrastructure.

ÇİRKİN

Based on Anatolian Tales, it is a surreal and heartwarming betrayal story that combines theater and interactive installation.

Reimagined from Anatolian traditions and folktales, it narrates a strange, occasionally humorous, and eerie story with an unknown time and place.

Specially crafted immersive sequences are designed for each scene. Digital designs, progressing parallel to the story and spatial elements, add another layer to the play.

An original creation of mythology!

The play intertwines two stories, one recounting the past of the irritable Shiva, who has lived for millennia, and the cursed Chicken, condemned to immortality alongside Shiva. It portrays both the characters' history and the contemporary clash between them.

Shiva and Chicken, to be seen on stage, are reconstructed narrators inspired by the meddah traditional art. These two characters, within an abstract stage design, create the entire narrative universe using their physical skills. At times, the audience transitions from their storytelling to the interactive visual universe on the walls, observing fragments of the story's past.