Grande Zarifi Apartments

November 2023 - June 2024
ISTANBUL

A Greek apartment building in Beyoğlu.

Melodies heard from the doorway, stories spilling from the plaster cracks, memories leaking from the floor creaks...

While you are a guest of the residents of this apartment, they also have other unexpected guests.

While young activist Aslan escapes from a protest he attended and knocks on the door of Leandros, who is waiting for his son, Elefteria, a tourist from Rhodes who finds the door of the upper floor open, inevitably becomes Serap's guest. So, who or what could be the guests of Hrisula, a former Rebetiko singer who lives alone in the attic, while her door is tightly closed, because conversations mixed with songs can be heard from inside...

İlyas Özçakır

He was introduced to theater while studying Civil Engineering at Boğaziçi University. During his student years, he was involved in amateur theater within the Galatasaray University Theater Group. After graduating from engineering faculty, he decided to become an actor and completed his master's degree in Film and Drama, Acting Department at Kadir Has University. After having his first professional experiences in various plays of Theater Other Lives, he founded the Sarı Sandalye theater company. In addition to acting in this community, he also undertook the project design of most of the plays. In particular, he increased his experience in literary adaptation. He founded Civil Production in 2019. İlyas Özçakır, who continues his artistic life as a director, producer and project designer with Birileri and Büyük Zarifi Apartmanı, for which he most recently designed the project.

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This page is published on 8 December 2023.