Turkish State Theatres

Turkish State Theatres

The Turkish State Theatres (Turkish: "Devlet Tiyatroları" - DT) is the official directorate of the national theatre companies in Turkey. It is bound to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and financed by the state to promote performed arts and enhance the public interest they receive. As of 2007, the directorate employs 2,200 people including more than 700 actors and about the same number of stage technicians.

Venues

The directorate owns 37 stages in 13 different cities (Ankara, İstanbul, İzmir, Bursa, Adana, Antalya, Trabzon, Konya, Sivas, Diyarbakır, Van, Erzurum, and Gaziantep), staging about 120 productions and reaching an audience of about 1.5 million each theatre season.

ee also

*Turkish State Opera and Ballet

External links

* [http://www.devtiyatro.gov.tr Official website of the directorate] tr icon / en icon
* [http://goturkey.kulturturizm.gov.tr/BelgeGoster.aspx?17A16AE30572D313679A66406202CCB0CB7F8168B002C4B1 A brief history of theatre in Turkey, on the website of Ministry of Culture and Tourism]


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