SAATLERİ AYARLAMA ENSTİTÜSÜ

SAE is a multi disciplinary theatre project based on the timeless masterpiece “the time regulation institute” mixing film and theatre in an experimental way to create a hybrid experience. The play premiered in April 2022 and has been met with great critical acclaim. The play is produced by Saatler Kolektif, an independent artist initiative based in Istanbul.

At its center is Hayri Irdal, an infectiously charming antihero who becomes entangled with an eccentric cast of characters—a television mystic, a pharmacist who dabbles in alchemy, a dignitary from the lost Ottoman Empire, a “clock whisperer”—at the Time Regulation Institute, a vast organization that employs a hilariously intricate system of fines for the purpose of changing all the clocks in Turkey to Western time. Recounted in sessions with his psychoanalyst, the story of Hayri Irdal’s absurdist misadventures plays out as a brilliant allegory of the collision of tradition and modernity, of East and West, infused with a poignant blend of hope for the promise of the future and nostalgia for a simpler time.

TEAM
Writer: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
Directed and Adapted by Serdar Biliş
Performer: Serkan Keskin
Stage and Costume Design: Gamze Kuş
Director of Photography : Ahmet Sesigurgil
Music: Tuluğ Tırpan
Multimedia Design and Production: Illusionist
Lighting Design: Cem Yilmazer
Sound Design: Izel Baybars,Ogün Kayıkçı,Başar Yurtcu
Assistant Director: Serin Öztoprak, Ekremcan Arslandağ
Text Editing: Ülkü Oktay
Game Assistants: Ahmet Kahvecioğlu, Oğuzhan Altıntaş, Mert Yılmaz Yıldırım, Onur Erdemir, Berke Şenel
Artist Assistant Sibel Altan
Decor and Costume Supervisor: Onur Uğurlu
Costume Supervisor Özlem Turgut

Production: Saatler Kolektif
Ahmet Sesigürgil, Cem Yılmazer, Gamze Kuş, Illusionist, Orion, Pürtelaş, Serkan Keskin, Tuluğ Tırpan, Türkan Özilhan Tacir, 484 Urban Garden
Executive Producer Gülgün Dedeçam
Assistant Director : Efe Can Yildiz

Creative Agency: TBWA / Istanbul, Özge Güven, İlkay Gürpınar
Graphic Design: Özge Güven
Communication Consultancy: Communication Depot
Social Media Communication: Emirhan Savaş
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