'İliş - iki -ler' game from Antakya Altınözü Tokaçlı Association

Antakya Altınözü Tokaçlı Village Social and Solidarity Association's newly established theater group performed the play İLİŞ-İKİ-LER on Sunday, March 27, at the Mask-Kara Stage.

The subject of the play, written, directed and in which Mihael Erkek, a member of our community, takes part as an actor, is the story of three couples' relationships with their spouses, their problems, daily issues such as which spouse has priority in watching TV, suspicions of infidelity, women's shopping costs, and the expensiveness of medium-astrology sessions.

In fact, the play, which takes as its main idea, "If a love is impossible, neither time nor space has the power to make it possible," begins as a comedy and ends with a dramatic ending. An old and sick Greek woman returns to Istanbul from Greece after many years, with the aim of leaving her last breath in the place where she was born. Suddenly,  she runs into her ex and she ends up passing away. The dialogues were made in both Greek and Turkish  and the play was enriched and colored with Greek folk dances. 

The only thing that reminds people to live humanely is art. Theater in particular is an activity that provides aesthetic and social education to audiences and actors.

Young people taking part in the play: İonas Yirmi, Sotiri Yumurta, Mary Yumurta, Selena Demir, Yusuf Paşa, Sotiri Carcar, Eleni Bardakçi, Elpida Davul and Yorgo Erkek. Mihael Erkek puts his signature to the play very successfully by revealing the subtleties of his artistic intelligence.

Most of the actors are students and graduates of Istanbul Greek schools and have been working as amateurs for months, preparing for the play by sacrificing their education and daily work. Therefore, we congratulate those who contributed to the game, those who played, the organizers and the Board of Directors of Altınozu Tokaçlı Association. I hope the play will be shown again as soon as possible.