Defne Ozdogan is a scenographer and designer based in Amsterdam and London, with a background in architecture. Her work spans across theatre, opera, dance, musicals, film, and fashion, where she combines spatial design with storytelling to create immersive environments.

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Bu Bir Prova Degil

ROLE Stage Designer
WRITER & DIRECTOR Yusuf Onur Aydın
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Bilgesu Akın
DRAMATURG Yağmur Şakoğlu
LIGHTING DESIGNER Ayşe Sedef Ayter
MUSIC & SOUND COORDINATOR Murat Gürgen
STAGE MANAGER Umut Akdoğan
DIRECTOR’S ASSISTANT Göksu Karamahmutoğlu
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Güney Coşka
CAST Selen Uçer, Münir Can Cindoruk, Elif Nur Kerkük, Selin Hasar, Yaren Özkoca
PRODUCED BY Tiyatro Watt

World premiere of a documentary theatre production examining migrant labor and the act of representation itself.

Premiered in Turkey and staged at Moda Sahne, DasDas, and Arter, the work centers on four undocumented migrant women employed in an unprotected textile workshop beneath the city. Erased from official records and public consciousness, their lives move toward a tragic end shaped by systemic neglect.

Written and directed by Yusuf Onur Aydın, the production is set within the rehearsal process of a theatre company attempting to stage this very tragedy. The performers expose their own vulnerabilities, labor conditions, and personal histories alongside the story they are constructing. By collapsing rehearsal and performance, reality and reenactment, the piece questions whether trauma can be represented, who has the right to represent it, and whether theatre can ever escape the structures it seeks to critique.