| Muhsin Ertuğrul Sahnesi | |
  Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage | |
| Address | Talatpaşa Boulevard 167 |
|---|---|
| Location | Dikimevi, Mamak, Ankara |
| Coordinates | 39°56′04″N32°52′36″E / 39.93444°N 32.87667°E Coordinates: 39°56′04″N32°52′36″E / 39.93444°N 32.87667°E |
| Owner | Mamak Municipality |
| Operator | Turkish State Theatres |
| Type | Local authority |
| Capacity | 288 |
Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage (Turkish : uhsin Ertuğrul Sahnesi) is a theatre venue in Ankara, Turkey. It is owned by Mamak Municipality and operated by the Turkish State Theatres. It is named in honour of the Turkish stage actor and director Muhsin Ertuğrul (1892–1979).
Turkish, also referred to as Istanbul Turkish, is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around ten to fifteen million native speakers in Southeast Europe and sixty to sixty-five million native speakers in Western Asia. Outside Turkey, significant smaller groups of speakers exist in Germany, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Cyprus has requested that the European Union add Turkish as an official language, even though Turkey is not a member state.
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον, itself from θεάομαι.
Ankara, historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. With a population of 4,587,558 in the urban center (2014) and 5,150,072 in its province (2015), it is Turkey's second largest city after Istanbul, having outranked İzmir in the 20th century.
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The theatre is situated inside the Mamak Cultural Center (Turkish : Mamak Kültür Merkezi) on Talatpaşa Boulevard 167 at Dikimevi, Mamak, Ankara. The interior was renovated and the technical infrastructure was modernized by preserving the theatre's historic texture. The auditorium has a total seating capacity of 288, including 50 box seats. [1]
Mamak is a metropolitan district of Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, part of the city of Ankara. According to 2010 census, population of Mamak is 549,585 The district covers an area of 478 km2 (185 sq mi), and the average elevation is 899 m (2,949 ft).
In theater, a box is a small, separated seating area in the auditorium or audience for a limited number of people for private viewing of a performance or event.
The theatre is generally home to performances of municipal actors, choirs and folk dance groups. [2] It hosts also activities of local foundations, associations and schools. It is among the official venues of Turkish State Theatres. [1]
