İlkşehir Theater was established in Zonguldak in September 2019. İlkşehir Theater aims to increase the individual and collective awareness of the trainees (playmates) in the child, youth and adult groups it has structured, about themselves and their environment, through theater training and workshops, and to put all the stage work done into practice by staging a theater play at the end of the term. Moreover; with a semi-amateur and semi-professional approach, it is aimed to include theater enthusiasts in the groups as actors in the theater productions that İlkşehir will stage.
İlkşehir also cooperates with the theater clubs of Civil Society Organizations (CSO) in the city with theater training and workshops. Various plays are prepared and staged in cooperation with Sahneczacı, the theater group within the 17th Region Zonguldak Chamber of Pharmacists.
In this regard, cooperation with Paydaş Education Culture and Art Association in all culture and art activities of the association continues from our establishment until today. İlkşehir is not only a theater training institution, but also a theater that stages its own theater productions.
Our first spectacle; İlkşehir, with the work titled “Gözlerimi Kaparım Vazifemi Yaparım (I Close My Eyes, I Do My Duty)” written by Haldun TANER, and “Memurin Faslı (Civil Servants’ Play)” written by Çoşkun IRMAK and “Eight Women-Huit Femmes” written by Robert THOMAS and translated into our language by Coşkun TUNÇTAN, met with theater lovers from Zonguldak.
İlkşehir communicates and cooperates with other theater groups in the city with the idea of overcoming problems and supporting each other in unity.
İlkşehir will stage the work titled “Titanic Orchestra”, written by Bulgarian play writer Hristo BOYÇEV and translated into our language by Hüseyin MEVSİM, in cooperation with Z Sahne, in the 2023-2024 theater season.
