The project Podron – with the title derived from the words “podcast” and “tadron” (“theater” in Armenian) – brings together artists to perform Armenian playwrights’ plays, some of which are only preserved in archives while others have been staged recently in Istanbul, in Turkish and Armenian. With Podron, which can be considered as a new generation radio theatre, we bring a selection of scripts produced in the Ottoman and the Republic era into the digital medium.

In recent years, various studies published have shown how Armenian theatre artists, who are mostly overlooked in theatre historiography in Turkey, enriched the field of theatre in the Ottoman and Republican periods. As Anadolu Kültür, we aim to contribute to these efforts with the Podron project.

Within the framework of the project, which pays homage to this theatre tradition passed down from generations, we will share information about significant figures and venues in the history of Armenian theatre, along with recordings of plays in Turkish and Armenian, as well as theater terminology with #podrondictionary.

You can access the project content through the Podron Instagram account and Anadolu Kültür’s website and social media accounts.

This project is supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Institut Français (Istanbul). We would like to thank the Hrant Dink Foundation for enabling us to access theater scripts from the Hagop Ayvaz Collection.

Advisory Board: Ayşan Sönmez, Boğos Çalgıcıoğlu, Fırat Güllü, Reha Keskin, Yeğya Akgün (Hangardz)
Recording and Sound Design: Podbee Media
Music: Ari Hergel
Visual Communication and Design: Daha Creative Content | Aren Selvioğlu
Visual Design Application: Arican Paker
Archive: Hagop Ayvaz Archive | Hrant Dink Foundation
English Translation: Burcu Becermen
Armenian Translation: Natali Bağdat, Muraz Sarangil
Project Coordinator: Tamar Nalcı 

Special Thanks Alize Çalık, Antranik Bakırcıoğlu, Aram Selvioğlu, Arda Yeşillikçi, Aren Selvioğlu, Ari Hergel, Ayşan Sönmez, Ayşe Draz, Barkın Sarp, Batuhan Kösegil, Bercuhi Berberyan, Boğos Çalgıcıoğlu, Bora Aksu, Burcu Becermen, Cemre Dalyan, Diana Çilingaryan, Ekin Su Birinci, Fırat Güllü, Gökbey Karataş, Harutyun Arto Davulciyan, Hrant Dink Vakfı, Hüsnü Abbas, İkna Sarıaslan, Jbid Toparlak, Lal Vulkan, Lara Narin, Lara Taş, Linda Gülbağ, Metin Bozkurt, Muraz Sarangil, Narod Erkol, Natali Bağdat, Özcan Gül, Özlem Hemiş, Reha Keskin, Sesil Demircioğlu Karahisaridis, Sevada Haçik Demirci, Şevval Balkan, Tara Demircioğlu, Tilbe Saran, Yeğya Akgün