{"id":8987,"date":"2025-09-15T10:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T11:01:35","slug":"bilt-stages-ministry-of-wish-fulfillment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=8987","title":{"rendered":"BILT Stages \u201cMinistry of Wish Fulfillment\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bilkent International Laboratory Theatre (BILT) will stage its new production, &#8220;Arzular\u0131 Yerine Getirme M\u00fcd\u00fcrl\u00fc\u011f\u00fc&#8221; (&#8220;Ministry of Wish Fulfillment&#8221;), on<strong> September 22 <\/strong>and <strong>23<\/strong> at the Bilkent Theater Hall. The play is expected to continue with additional dates later in the season. Written by Bark\u0131n Kenan and directed by Pelin \u015eahin, both Bilkent alumni, the play premiered in August 2025, at the same venue.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded in 2019 as an alumni collective within Bilkent University\u2019s Department of Performing Arts, BILT aims to support and present new works of contemporary Turkish theater. The upcoming production will feature performances by Kutay Karag\u00fclle, Berkay \u015eekerci, Tutku Lal Demirci, Ege Tolga, Haydar \u00d6zkan, Toygun Elald\u0131 and Berk Cem G\u00f6ksel. Set and costume design are by T\u00fcrk\u00fcler Topal and lighting design is by I\u015f\u0131k Kazanc\u0131o\u011flu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set in an imaginary kingdom, &#8220;Arzular\u0131 Yerine Getirme M\u00fcd\u00fcrl\u00fc\u011f\u00fc&#8221; follows an absurd and comedic story inside a ten-story institution created to meet citizens\u2019 requests. Through humor and satire, the play explores bureaucracy, resilience and human nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BILT\u2019s artistic director Jason Hale emphasized the group\u2019s ongoing mission to bring new Turkish plays to the stage. For tickets: <a href=\"https:\/\/ticket.bilkent.edu.tr\/\"><strong>https:\/\/ticket.bilkent.edu.tr\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bilkent International Laboratory Theatre (BILT) will stage its new production, &#8220;Arzular\u0131 Yerine Getirme M\u00fcd\u00fcrl\u00fc\u011f\u00fc&#8221; (&#8220;Ministry of Wish Fulfillment&#8221;), on September 22 and 23 at the Bilkent Theater Hall. The play is expected to continue with additional dates later in the season. Written by Bark\u0131n Kenan and directed by Pelin \u015eahin,<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=8987\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,80,194,193],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9081,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions\/9081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}