NAZIM HİKMET POEMS

Project by Atilla Birkiye
Music Director Serdar Yalçın
Adapted to Stage by Mehmet Birkiye

Poems recited by Metin Belgin, Bülent Emin Yarar, Hakan Gerçek

Vedat Sakman vocal, guitar
Hakan Gürbüz bass guitar, percussion
Cihan Gökdemir classical guitar


“I want to reach a level of realism that gives the reality in poetry with all its complexity, its past, present and future elements and in motion. But I have yet to achieve this aim. The realism of many of my writings is unilateral. Therefore, they most of the time have an attitude of a 'propaganda' screaming in excess. My conceptions in terms of the reflection of the sight and understanding of the world in art rather than in terms of the sight and understanding of the world have pretty much been changed.” (Nâzım Hikmet, “Her Ay”, 20 April 1937)


A “world poet” Nâzım Hikmet’s (1902-1963) poems -compiled in chronological order- will be presented with a stage setting referring to the poet’s life. Vedat Sakman will perform songs especially composed from the poems of the poet as well as his own compositions.