conversations in ten questions 5 : Prodromos Tsinikoris - Clean City (Onassis STEGI & Goethe-Institut)
In this series of interviews we try to get to know the directors/choreographers who will be the international guests at the 23rd Istanbul Theatre Festival in November 2019. Our fifth guest is Prodromos Tsinikoris. Ayse Draz & Mehmet Kerem Ozel Art Unlimited Performing Arts Editor & Writer [The Turkish translation of this interview is published and can be accessed on art.unlimited ] Prodromos Tsinikoris What is the spirit of theatre in your opinion? How do you define contemporary theatre today? I see theatre as a publically staged political act to which everyone should feel free and invited to participate. It should ask the important and right questions for our time and open a new place of discourse for daring and provocative approaches in order to create a proposal for a future as we imagine it. Do you believe in the transformative power of art? How? By presenting different stories and creating alternative narratives against a mainstream ...