Piraye to the Blue-Eyed Giant...

 

 

Yazı/Text: TANSEL TÜZEL
Fotoğraflar/Photos: GÜRCAN ÖZTÜRK

 

Dolunay Soysert, who rose to  ‘Blue-Eyed Giant’, brings to the stage seven different characters in the Istanbul People’s Theatre production of ‘Field of Life’ in the month of May in Ankara, Izmir, Bursa and Ayvalık.   

 

 

Dolunay Soysert’s eyes sparkle at the end of a two-hour performance where she plays seven different women... Her place in the hearts of many is assured with the TV series she’s already been in and her appeal for the cinema-goer is on the rise. Her solid acting is bolstered by her clear beauty. She’s well aware that the route to better acting is a long and winding one. Yet, she’s one of the lucky few who have managed to seek and find what lies within... Art has always been on her mind and in her dreams, yet the stage only turned into a passion after an audition. The passion for art that began with painting led almost instinctively to an audition for the conservatory, and the surprises that life threw her way focussed her entirely on the stage. Receiving an acceptance from Archaeology but not from the Academy, she found herself searching. The magic sentence was uttered by a master actress, Yıldız Kenter: “First, make your mind up.” That’s how she found out that the stage she ascended once for an audition was where she wanted to be. And she tried once again, this time at the Müjdat Gezen Arts Centre; this time, she was successful. She then acted at the City Theatre for four years. This wasn’t enough. She went beyond the box by going to Nebraska, there to raise the bar further. The student life that she sustained by waiting on tables and child-minding came to an end when she obtained all the requirements for a student in the States. Dolunay Soysert, who, in the last few years, played Marilyn Monroe in “The Rendez-vous”, Piraye in Biket Ilhan’s controversial “Blue-Eyed Giant” that was recently released and the many faces of “Field of Dreams”, won the Afife Jale Best Actress Award in 2005 with her portrayal of Monroe. Soysert, who describes the thrill of being on stage as “Fantastic!” talked to us immediately after the play about her adventure in art that began with painting and turned into a veritable escapade...

“It has something to do with being able to carry the burden. I’ve just left seven different women behind, for example. They’re all packing; I will meet them again on Friday. You have to keep your distance. I go out there and do what no one else does. It’s such a free location; you get away with so much. I’m outside the boundaries of rules there. When it’s over, I’m back in my own skin. Odd things happen every once in a while. I cried over a doll on the TV series all day. In the evening, when we were rehearsing the honour killing scene, where I have to be particularly emotional, I was unable to cry. This is all due to crying over the doll earlier. In other words, there are times when I fail.”