Thespians in for a treat in Çatalköy

ÇATALKÖY Municipality showcases local and Turkish drama this month at their eighth Beşparmak Theatre Festival, which launches on Tuesday at the Erol Avgören Cultural Centre.

Girne and Çatalköy Municipality theatre launch the season with three 8pm performances of the one-act comedy Minced Meat and Okra in the Pressure Cooker on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.

Subtitled “a good meal is like a good democracy”, the play sends up “the insensitivity of a bourgeois female coffee culture of empty talk, gossip and fortune telling”.

Children will be in for a treat at 9.30am on Monday, March 12 with a shadow puppet Karagöz show by the Beyarmudu Municipality South Mesaoria Theatre, who also perform their comedy play Nor & Betmez at 8pm.

Tiyatro Kulis visit from Mersin, Turkey, on Wednesday, March 14 for a performance of the romantic comedy Love Analyser.

The Fourth Wall Cultural Association offer a performance of their two-act comedy Bak Başka — Look, Another — on Friday, March 16 from local playwright Osman Bulun. More children’s theatre is on offer at 9.30am on Tuesday, March 20 with a TRNC State Theatre performance of their play, The Mountain Met the Sea.

The Çorum-based Mask Theatre perform their play Artist Pakize on Friday, March 23, followed by a Güzelyurt Municipality City Theatre performance of the play The Rose Hostel.

The season closes with the comedy, The Little Tiny Kingdom of Karamusa, by the Mesaoria Art and Culture Association.

Tickets are priced at 5TL, all evening performances begin at 8pm and more information may be obtained by phoning the municipality on (0392) 824 4068, extension 113. All shows are in Turkish.