"Kozmik Korku"

Christian Lollike's 2009 play Kosmisk frygt eller den dag Brad Pitt fik paranoia [Cosmic Fear, or the Day Brad Pitt Got Paranoia] is staged Kemal Aydoğan at Moda Sahnesi.

Translated by Leyla Tamer, Kozmik Korku ya da Brad Pitt'in Paranoyaya Kapıldığı Gün presents three nameless characters in a heated discussion about how to bring about attention to climate change. On stage, they play out a variety of futile attempts to dramatically ignite a sense of urgency under the looming threat of planetary disaster. Keenly aware of the limited attention-span of the global audience, the trio conjures an apparition of the US actor and global superstar Brad Pitt to aid their cause. The dream factory of Hollywood, they suggest, possesses the global impact needed for global action, and the well-known face of Brad Pitt––“a man of action”–– provides a point of human identification in the riveting drama of the climate crisis the characters so desire to stage.

The Turkish translation of Lollike's Cosmic Fear has been published by Habitus Kitap in 2022 with an introduction by the dramaturg Ferdi Çetin and an essay by the dramaturg Anders Thrue Djurslev.

Thanks to the Danish Cultural Institute.