The TV and cinema veteran returns to theater, his first love from RC, with his trilogy.
Haluk Özenç is a veteran of TV and cinema, but of late he has turned to theater, his first love from RC. He has written three plays that cover the War of Independence, from May 19, 1919, to October 29, 1923. The trilogy is named Yüzyıllık Destan (A Legend of 100 Years), and the first play Ateş (Fire) made its debut on October 29 in Ankara. Savaş (War) and Bayrak (Flag) will also be staged within 2023.
He also continues performing his stand-up comedy show Gerisi Hikaye (The Rest is a Tale). Özenç states that the show is based on his own life: “Both I and my followers have missed this show. I updated it and tried to reflect the zeitgeist in this new version. I have been writing comedy for others since 1991. I decided to write material for myself in 2014. The show is based on my life and I do have the most out-of-the-box stories, but it has elements of everyone’s marriage, work, life struggles. I have a mission to show comedy in its purest, cleanest and most sincere form at this point in the culture where it has degenerated.”
RC is where Özenç’s journey started: “My teachers like Dorothy İz, Mehmet Uysal, Nursel Akbulut, Bilgi Haner convinced me that I belonged on the stage. I wrote and staged many plays at RC even after graduation.
Published November 2023
