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Mercaniye Çok Yaşa
Long Live Mercaniye!
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“This is a theater dream, Above is a ship, below is the sea”
Drawing its roots from tradition and its power from the future, Tiyatro Hayali’s new dream “Long Live Mercaniye” invites its audience to a time tunnel with its cheerful playfulness; inexplicable humor; period tones in its songs; its sirto, longa, sirtaki, marches and exemplary characters.
The last days of the Ottoman Empire… The magnificent navy of the empire has been asleep in the Golden Horn for twenty years… This is the dream: let our ship “Mercaniye” be one of the dozens of warships in this navy that is rotting from the inside. In fact, it is a passenger ship purchased from the French years ago. They added it to the navy by adding artillery equipment and disguising it as a warship. On the one hand, there is the insufficient and incompetent crew that is languishing in Kasımpaşa cafes and wasting their li
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“This is a theater dream, Above is a ship, below is the sea”
Drawing its roots from tradition and its power from the future, Tiyatro Hayali’s new dream “Long Live Mercaniye” invites its audience to a time tunnel with its cheerful playfulness; inexplicable humor; period tones in its songs; its sirto, longa, sirtaki, marches and exemplary characters.
The last days of the Ottoman Empire… The magnificent navy of the empire has been asleep in the Golden Horn for twenty years… This is the dream: let our ship “Mercaniye” be one of the dozens of warships in this navy that is rotting from the inside. In fact, it is a passenger ship purchased from the French years ago. They added it to the navy by adding artillery equipment and disguising it as a warship. On the one hand, there is the insufficient and incompetent crew that is languishing in Kasımpaşa cafes and wasting their li