SEVEN premieres in Turkey

Todays Zaman

SEVEN, Vital Voices' documentary play, premiered in Turkey on September 23 through a joint effort with the Sweden Institute, the İstanbul Swedish Consulate and Riksteatern at the Muammer Karaca Theatre in Beyoğlu.

Producer of the play, Hedda Krausz Sjögren, said of SEVEN: "The message is ‘get engaged and start looking at your society and around yourself and change something’.”

A collection of artists, writers and activists took part in the staging, including journalist Ece Temelkuran, who reads the part of Nigerian activist Hafsat Abiola. Temelkuran related the play to women's experience in her home country:

“It is a fact that a similar play can be written for Turkey as well. I think we can do a play like this in Turkey with seven women. I’m sure there’ll be thousands of women who would like to be the voice of seven women contributing to the struggle in Turkey.”

Read the full article, "Seven women activists' stories told on the stage," Todays Zaman.

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