Characters: One Person Play (He or She)
About the Play: House of Hundred is a take on the transition from the Ottoman period to the Republican era through the story of an old mansion and its demolition. Reality and fiction are intertwined in this semi-autobiographical play where Yeşim Özsoy tells her story through that of her maternal grandmother.
The play which tells the story of the İbrahim Ethem Efendi Mansion, is narrated through the stories of Ozsoy’s grandmother who had lived in the mansion in a unique way by making the furniture, spaces, animals and things talk about themselves in their own voices. The play aims to create questions about nation, one history, one nation, one religion, in short, the concepts of origin and uniqueness with the help of these stories. In this respect, the mansion is a representative space where overlapping stories and times come together.
Written by playwright, director and actress Yeşim Özsoy together with academic and dramatist Ferdi Çetin, House of Hundred is a call for the audience to rethink current politics where reality is intertwined with fiction just like how Özsoy approaches her own family history.