The Department of Performing Arts

The Department was founded in 2004 and admitted its first students in 2006. The Department consists of the Branches of Playwriting, Acting and Stage Design.

In these branches, graduate training is usually given separately but the students find a chance to take place in some theatrical productions of various sizes in and out of the courses, thus tasting the collectivism of theatre and gaining professional experience throughout. These plays, as they are also offered to the audience in the city, are intended to raise the university students’ and city dwellers’ consciousness level of theatre.

The Department aims to raise players, playwrights, scenarists and authors, dramaturges, decor and costume designers, light and effect specialists for cinema, TV, radio, ads, and especially for theatre.

Guided by the view that theatre is a synthesizing art, the Department has acknowledged the thought that the permeability already existing in the sub-disciplines of theatre itself is, and can be, possible between all the arts’ disciplines and theatre.

In this department, Physical Theatre and Puppetry are scheduled to be opened in the forthcoming years.

Playwriting

The Branch of Playwriting aims to raise the “new playwright” equipped with the systematic knowledge of Turkish and world theatre and having the perspective of “national theatre”, who can use all that knowledge to increase his/her own creative potential and therefore, it offers a training focusing on dramatic authorship.

In this sense, the secondary field is cinema and TV scenarios and radio plays script authorship. The program contains applied and theoretical courses peculiar to the discipline of authorship, and there are also applied and theoretical courses conducted with the Branches of Acting and Stage Design.

The short plays written by the students of the program are used as the “reading theatre” in the 1st-year class and then they are staged as the departmental productions by the academic staff of the Department.