Armada Hosts the First Time Performance of “City of Hotels”...

“I am among lyrics and songs,
which had never been written and sung
in any language.”
Edip Cansever

If he were alive, he could have heard his own words as songs in jazz melodies like he used to love and would have been very happy.

Armada will be hosting a poetry performance titled “City of Hotels” of Hümay Güldağ and Metin Belgin on the evening of 18th of November, 2008, Tuesday. Baki Duyarlar will accompany with his piano and the jazz songs composed by himself in the performance where the dramatically edited poems named “City of Hotels” of famous Turkish poet Edip Cansever will be on stage.

“City of Hotels” of Edip Cansever turns into a visual feast in Armada where has an atmosphere gives a feeling of İstanbul in early 20th century. One of the characters in the play of these dramatical poems, “Mrs. Sara” will be played by Hümay Güldağ and Metin Belgin gives life to the characters “Maitre d’hotel” and “ex-husband of Mrs. Sara”. Baki Duyarlar (Named in memory of his father who is a big Turkish Classical Music composer, Baki Duyarlar.) comes along with the performers by playing jazz songs which were particularly composed for the poems of Edip Cansever and this performance, live with the piano. All costume designs belong to Dilara Endican...

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“CITY OF HOTELS”

Edip Cansever, who is one of the pioneering poets of “The Second New” movement, constructs his poetry on comprehension of loneliness, cosmic loneliness of the individual. Each of us reach to our own inner voice whenever we read his poems.

“In City of Hotels, not only people come close and draw apart, but also objects, embedded with them, face the same treatment. With the companionship of gin glasses, Ms Sara, being acquainted with her own pains, attends to a different orchestra; “Like a female Christ crucifies herself on life or on death. Honestly, I am not sure, on life or on death? The only thing I know is that she paints the whole book with her own color, like blood leaking from those that I am not able to know.” / Edip Cansever

A Poetry Performance by Hümay Güldağ and Metin Belgin
Composer Baki Duyarlar