To Live in the Years of Betrayal

Tiyatro Pera Opens Its New Stage with Living in the Years of Betrayal!

Written and directed by Nesrin Kazankaya, Living in the Years of Betrayal premieres on Friday, October 9, 2026, at 8:30 PM.

The play features dramaturgy by Şafak Eruyar, set and costume design by Adnan Berke Şenyüz, lighting design by Kemal Edis, and movement direction by Melisa Pelit Demirci. The cast includes Barış Yalçınsoy, Oğuz İşçi, Bahar Karaoğlu, Gökçe Burcu Zümrüt, Kaan Kurtoğlu, Seval İnan, Esel İsrafilova, Rozita Almozlino, Zeynep Su Polat, and Selin Gümüşkaya.

About the Play

The play is based on the memoir Timebends: A Life by renowned American playwright Arthur Miller, his play The Crucible, and the court records of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). All source materials were translated by Nesrin Kazankaya.

The McCarthy investigations of 1950s America and the dark, theocratic town of Salem in the 17th century meet on the same stage. At the heart of the play is the trial of the celebrated writer Arthur Miller before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).

During a period when numerous artists, writers, and scientists were accused of communism, lost their jobs, faced legal proceedings, and were imprisoned, Arthur Miller traveled to Salem to research the court records of innocent people who had been accused of witchcraft and executed in the 17th century. He subsequently wrote The Crucible. Shortly afterwards, he himself would appear before the court.

The play brings together, within the same dramatic framework, the biographical story of Arthur Miller, who was accused of communism and tried in 1956, and the 17th-century Salem witch trials depicted in his own work.