Die Maskeraden des D. Oregan

THE MASQUERADES OFS D. OREGAN

by Yade Yasemin Önder & Glossy Pain

Inspired by the Graphic Novel Erdoğan by Can Dündar and Anwar

A major German city in the near future: A well-known theatre, hotbed of hot-air, is making headlines. The reactionary methods of artistic director Ar Baken is driving more enlightened folks to the streets. Ongoing protests in front of the theatre are the result.

The up-and-coming director D. Oregan desperately wants to write theatre history. He is given the unique opportunity to stage a play for Ar Baken’s popular and infamous house to whitewash its reputation. But D. Oregan does not content himself with that. Slickly, he is playing the divide between the ensemble and the direction of the house. And while all the rest threaten to fall into the chasm, D. Oregan forges his way to the top, seizing the artistic director’s throne.

In the 1970s, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made an attempt to become an actor, writer and director, adapting the anti-communist piece ‘Kızıl Pençe’ (“Red Claw”) as a play titled ‘Mas Kom Yah’. It was a huge success in Turkey. Erdoğan could stage the play for his idol and political mentor Necmettin Erbakan, who, at the time, cheered him enthusiastically, only to turn his back on him in later decades.

Inspired by the graphic novel Erdoğan by Can Dündar and Mohamed Anwar, the collective Glossy Pain and author Yade Yasemin Önder examine power structures, abuse, manipulation and fanaticism – in politics, in the world of theatre, and in the selfcare industry. The boundaries are as fluid as liquid moisturizer on your skin.

Glossy Pain works as a multilingual collective in changing constellations with international artists. Glossy Pain premiered its first production, BANG!, at TD Berlin in June 2021, followed by the production of Anne Lepper’s Seymour in June 2022. In the same year, Sistas! by Golda Barton celebrated its premiere. The production was awarded the Audience Award of the Radikal jung Festival 2023 and author Golda Barton was honoured by Theater heute as Young Author of the Year. The next major success for the Kollektiv 2023 was their adaptation of Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck at the Theater an der Ruhr in Mülheim, which has been invited to the European Fast Forward Festival for Young Directors in November. In October 2023, Katharina Stoll’s adaptation of Wedekind’s Spring Awakening celebrated its premiere at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe.

A production by Glossy Pain, sponsored by Hauptstadtkulturfonds with the kind support of Theaterhaus Berlin.