BURCU YASEMIN SEYBEN
Plays
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Donation
At a bleak plasma donation center, Emel, an anxious immigrant woman, unexpectedly encounters David, a coworker whose questions expose the secret she has kept from her husband. What begins as an awkward conversation turns into blackmail when David demands that Emel cover his shifts in exchange for his silence. As their confrontation intensifies, cultural prejudice, economic resentment, and private desperation collide, revealing that both are struggling to survive in a society where generosity, dignity, and even the body have become commodities.
(TEN-MINUTE, DARK COMEDY)
At an Istanbul university, a visiting professor tries to teach Greek theatre while violence gathers outside the classroom door. Students arrive breathless, hide their names, and turn the lesson toward dramatic irony—the danger of knowing too much, or not enough. As jokes become warnings and ancient theatrical devices acquire a terrifying immediacy, the classroom offers only the illusion of refuge. Darkly comic and quietly devastating, Intro to Greek Theatre asks what education means when knowledge can expose the vulnerable and silence may be the only defense.
(10-MINUTE, POLITICAL THRILLER)
A deep dive into the personal and familial repercussions of studying abroad and the value of education in a foreign land. A saga of estranged brothers and cousins whose freshly established connections are severely affected by Yasemin’s selfish quest for her roots to remedy her existential and cultural alienation caused by her education.
(FULL LENGTH, DRAMA)
A Beauty Mark
A semi-documentary play about a professor's escape from the oppressive Turkish government after signing a petition to stop the government's atrocities against the citizens. A Beauty Mark has been longlisted for a 6-Month Fellowship with Digital Development Project Match Program!
(FULL LENGTH, DOCUDRAMA)
Our Founding Father
A student's desperate attempt to appear in the first Turkish musical ever produced in a Turkish-American high school to be able to graduate.
(TWENTY-MINUTE, DARK COMEDY)