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Will You Come With Me?
by Ebru Nihan Celkan
Director
Umut and Janina meet and fall in love in Istanbul, where rebellion simmers amongst the queer and displaced youth. Using video recordings and phone calls to fight against physical and emotional distance, Umut is caught between the momentum of sociopolitical change at home and the promise of a quieter life in Berlin with Janina. By turns explosive and intimate, Will You Come With Me? explores the chaos and complexities of living through an uprising with generosity, love, and tenderness.
While bearing the specifics of Istanbul and Berlin, Will You Come With Me? resonates anywhere activist movements have been met with force and setbacks-and among anyone who has found love tested by a profound gap in experience. Subverting the tendency for stories surrounding authoritarianism to center, or even name, those who wield power, the play gives voice to those who resist, even after vast swaths of a movement have been suppressed or disappointed into submission. It examines the emotional toll relentless struggle takes, and the sense of unity it brings to those whose bodies, sexualities, and gender presentations have been made into battlegrounds
Produced by PlayCo
FeaturingLayla Khoshnoudi and Maribel Martinez
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Set Design: Afsoon Pajoufar
Costume Design: Enver Chakartash
Lighting Design: Reza Behjat
Sound Design and Original Music: Avi Amon
Projections Design: Stefania Bulbarella and Dee Lamar Mills
Production Stage Manager: Christina M. Woolard
Production Manager: Stuart Parman
Translation: Kate Ferguson
Company and House Manager: Daniel George
Artwork: Desiree Nasim
Photos by Julieta Cervantes
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