Telephone call from arthereistanbul - Waseem Alsharqi

Footsteps will make a call to the Berlin-based writer, dramaturg and theater director Waseem Alsharqi from arthereistanbul on Friday, August 26 at 18:00 and ask him how he is doing nowadays, about his time in Istanbul and his current projects.

Telephone Call from arthereIstanbul! - Waseem Alsharqi at the other end of the line.

Telephone Call from arthereIstanbul!, the conversation corner of the Footsteps Library launched as part of the 17th Istanbul Biennial is calling Waseem Alsharqi, a writer, dramaturg and theater director living in Germany. Waseem Alsharqi, who previously worked in Syria and Lebanon, was a resident of Istanbul between 2015 and 2017. During this time he staged a closet drama entitled What are we to do in Istanbul?, adapted from Füruzan’s novel Parasız Yatılı [Free Boarding School] and Bernard-Marie Koltès’ play Roberto Zucco. He also staged the Arabic-Turkish play, The Unfinished Night of the Seagulls. This play was described as “A theater play that was brought to the stage after a series of interactive theater…