A Tale Of Two Theatres

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Director Mehmet Ergen returns home to lift the curtain on Turkish theatre. From 2014.

4 Extra Debut. Co-founder of London’s Arcola Theatre, Mehmet Ergen goes to Istanbul to check what’s at stake for Turkish theatre.  From 2014.

Mehmet Ergen is best known to UK theatre audiences as the co-founder of London's Arcola Theatre. 

But his pioneering work in Hackney is only half the story. 

We follow him to his Turkish homeland, post Gezi Park and post Arab Spring, caught between the Syrian conflict and EU aspirations; an emerging economy where freedom of speech is still in jeopardy.

Producer: Kirsty McQuire

A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2014.

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