26/08/2025
STAGE AT THE MUSEUM, with the theme "Encounters and Beyond," will be at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum on September 4–7, 2025. Performing Arts Days, which have been ongoing for many years with the main sponsorship of the Sabancı Foundation, bring together diverse disciplines with their multilayered program, artistically directed by Ayşe Draz.
Focusing on the intersensory interplay of the performing arts, this year's STAGE AT THE MUSEUM focuses on the moments when the body touches art, the everyday touches the museum, the past touches the future, and the stage touches the audience. Through words echoing on stage, performances encountered in the garden, conversations in the foyer, and workshops, it aims to create new areas of contact not only during playtime but at every moment of the day.
The main stage program includes the season's standout productions, Tomorrow Maybe" which explores future possibilities with ironic and poetic language; Girls and Boys, which won the "Most Successful Actress of the Year" award at the Afife Theatre Awards and explores domestic violence through a woman's life story; and L'Addition" which stands out with its international prestige. Premiering at the Avignon Theatre Festival and considered one of the festival's most talked-about productions, L'Addition engages audiences with its humorous and provocative narrative while also confronting disturbing questions. This remarkable production will be staged in Turkey for the first time as part of STAGE AT THE MUSEUM. Theatre students can apply through SSM's social media accounts to watch the play free of charge, with limited availability.
The Encounters in the Garden section of the program takes audiences beyond their daily routines with performances by artists from various disciplines. In this context, the site-specific performance One Day I Watched the Bosphorus from Here, inspired by the museum collection, is presented to the audience.
In the Encounters in the Foyer section, Özlem Hemiş and Aylin Alıveren share different contexts and their own impressions of the plays to be performed.
The children's program includes Pezzettino, a production of ATTA Festival, as well as 3 in 1 Shakespeare, an object theater set in the kitchen, produced by Kadro Pa.
Furthermore, the Soundscape of Atlı Köşk workshop with Oğuz Öner, a STAGE AT THE MUSEUM classic, and the Encounters with Smells workshop, organized in collaboration with Homemade Aromaterapi, will offer audiences a new sensory experience that goes beyond sight and hearing.
Sabancı University staff and students can watch the theater play L'Addition, performed as part of Stage at the Museum on September 6th and 7th, with a 10% discount using the code SSM10MS.
Tickets for the STAGE AT THE MUSEUM, a multifaceted artistic meeting space, are available through the biletinial platform.
