Ayse Balkos: Canine Teeth (stand up spoken word)

CANINE TEETH by Ayse Balkos

Canine Teeth is a stand up monologue combining live spoken word and soundscapes with storytelling and visual landscape created through visual projection. (Istanbul streets, Turkish culture).

It is a voyage and return – moving into the past, digging ever deeper (into oneself, into relations) – fundamentally journeying from here to discover something that’s over there, and then coming back transformed so the audience may experience the place Ayse started in a new way. This story begins inside, and moves out.

Canine Teeth was developed after Balkos released her collection of poems and songs, “Come To Tower and actively discovered a line through them that connected the works during “Making Autobiographical Theatre Workshop run by On The Run Theatre 2022. The project received an Arts Council Lottery Project Funding with presentations at the Migration Matters Festival and Dorothy Pax in Sheffield in summer of 2022.

About Ayse Balkos:

Ayse walks across the stage and talks about the Turkish culture she was growed in.

A story which has not been heard before that takes place during a day against the back drop of a Turkish society obsessed with marriage and women. Ayse’s stand up show, Canine Teeth is an insightful and ultimately harrowing look at the life of a young Turkish woman.

Rooted in Ayse’s lived experiences, the show is a journey into an alternative reality of a modern and westernized Turkish woman and the clash of family, freedom and faith.

A work about grief, gender, economic and social discrimination. A young women’s relatable experience.