Konya State Theatre staged the play The Poet and the Night Owl. Written by Cihan Aktaş and directed by Bengisu Gürbüzer Doğru, the play received high praise from the audience.
In his latest novel The Poet and the Night Owl, Cihan Aktaş explores the story of two women who witnessed the final years of the Ottoman Empire.
The life of Cevriye Banu, a poet from Atkaracalar who lived in Çankırı, is being explored for the first time, even if through a novel.
The play tells the stories of a few women whose names have been lost to history in the thousands of years of ancient Anatolia. It portrays the struggles of Nimet, a young girl who had to migrate from Istanbul to Anatolia, and Cevriye Banu, a female poet, as they both, at different times, fight tirelessly for the sake of their pen and paper as well as their families.
