Turkish actor: “I am trying to compensate what was snatched by my predecessors”
Within the frames of “Hayfest” international theatre festival, today “Auction of souls” play staged by Canadian Armenian actress Arsine Khanjian will be presented to the audience. “Auction of Souls is the name of the film, which was shot based on the life story of Aurora Mardiganian; I have also added ‘Present a memory” title to this idea, as the presentation of that memory is the main aim of this project,” noted Arsine Khanjian. “Auction of souls” is the play of Germany’s “Maxim Gorki” theatre; it included the life story of Aurora Mardiganian, who survived the Armenian Genocide. The idea of the performance came forward in 2015. “In 2015 I was in Berlin and met with the Artistic Director of Maxim Gorki Theatre, who was responsible for Turkish and German theatre and informed that he wanted to devote 45 days to the Armenian history and Genocide and offered me to stage a play. I decided that it must be about Aurora Mardiganian,” Canadian Armenian actress told the journalists. Taner Sahintürk, acting in the play, has Turkish origin, but he immediately gave his consent after receiving an offer to play in the performance about the Armenian Genocide. “It’s a great honor for me to act in such a play together with such actors. My parents are Turkish, I was born during the Genocide years in Turkey’s ally country, Germany, but my friends and relatives haven’t reacted negatively to my role and participation in this project. Through this play I am trying to compensate what was snatched by my predecessors 100 years ago,” noted actor of Maxim Gorki Theatre Taner Sahintürk. “Auction of Souls” will be premiered on October 3 at 19:00 at Puppet Theatre after Hovhannes Tumanyan.
