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Ali Nihat YAVŞAN


She was born in 1963.
She studied at Ankara University Faculty of Letters Department of Theatre.
She has worked on Theatre for Children since 1984.
She is one of the founders of Pembe Kurbaga Show Activities.

She works for Theatre Pembe Kurbağa as playwright.

Her plays include CANDYPINK THE FROG, MAGICIAN THE CLOWN, DREAMS of CANDYKIDS, LITTLE MERMAID, SNOW MAN AND SNOW FLAKES, BRATTY FLOWER, PRINCESS WHO NEVER EATS, SUN MOON AND COCK, KITE WITH CLIPPED TAIL, ADVENTURE OF POMPON RABBIT, CLOWNS ON FLOWER ISLAND, DEAR EARTH AND DAISY presented at Theatre Pembe Kurbaga.

Besides writing the plays she is also a story writer. She has won 'Akademi Bookstore Story Award' in 1986.

In 1997 she was awarded 'TOBAV Playwright Award' also. She has a lot of radio theatres broadcasted on Turkish Radio Television.

She has worked for Turkish Radio Television on children programmes as scenarist. Some of her studies are TAVANARASI - ATTIC (13 parts), OYUNEVİ - PLAYHOUSE (13 parts), CUMARTESİ SABAHI - SATURDAY MORNING (41 parts), OYUN OYUN İÇİNDE - GAME IN GAME (44 parts)


He was born in 1963.
He studied at Ankara University Faculty of Letters Department of Theatre.
He has worked on Theatre for Children since 1984.
He is one of the founders of Pembe Kurbaga Show Activities.

He works for Theatre Pembe Kurbağa as playwright, director and player.

He took place in CANDYPINK THE FROG, GOOD FRIEND TALLEAR, HUNTER AND BUTTERFLY, MAGICIAN THE CLOWN, LITTLE BIRD, A LITTLE COCK, THE STORM, RABBIT THE GARDENER, FLYING UMBRELLA, DREAMS of CANDYKIDS, SMART TEETOTUM, LITTLE MERMAID, SNOW MAN AND SNOW FLAKES, CLOWNS IN PICNIC, BRATTY FLOWER, AS MUCH AS THE ANT CAN, LITTLE SHEPHERD, PRINCESS WHO NEVER EATS, SUN MOON AND COCK, KITE WITH CLIPPED TAIL, ADVENTURE OF POMPON RABBIT, CLOWNS ON FLOWER ISLAND, DEAR EARTH AND DAISY as director and player. He wrote some of these plays too.

He took the shadow theatre that is one of the most beautiful samples of traditional Turkish Theatre in repertoire of Theatre Pembe Kurbaga and presented KARAGOZ PREPARATION FOR WINTER, KARAGOZ TRIP IN TIME, AH KARAGOZ VAH KARAGOZ adapting them to actual time.

PUPPET 1001 FACES he directed using tecniques of puppetry and shadow theatre has won great approval.

He has made TV programmes since 1984 time to time. Some of them are TRAMPET - DRUM, MERHABA ÇOCUKLAR - HELLO TO CHILDREN, SİHİRLİ ODA - MAGIC ROOM, OYUN BAHÇESİ - GARDEN OF GAME, UÇTU UÇTU, CUMARTESİ NEŞESİ - SATURDAY MERRIMENT, ESİNTİ - BREEZE, YARIŞALIM EĞLENELİM - LETS RACE AND AMUSE, TAVANARASI - ATTIC, OYUNEVİ - PLAYHOUSE, CUMARTESİ SABAHI - SATURDAY MORNING, OYUN OYUN İÇİNDE - GAME IN GAME.

Ali Nihat who is a brand of the first educated clown in Turkey is bringing together the Clown Show and Clown - Magic Show with the children.

He presented his experiences on symposiums and seminars. It is published some of his papers about children theatre.

He teachs in Institute of Oluşum Drama.

He directed plays at the school theatres too and has some awards in this field.


As PEMBE KURBAGA SHOW ACTIVITIES we have been on the stage with our artistry, power of chasing newness and effort for distributing happiness to children since 1984 .

Pembe Kurbaga Show Activities is a prominent and estimable corporation centered in Ankara with experienced personnel and professional approach to animation, entertainment organisation, theatre and TV programme for children .

As Pembe Kurbaga Entertainment Club we are aware that the reason of being in the world of entertainment continuously for 20 years is our approach taking shape according to our disciplined reformist understanding while we are presenting good times and activities and producing and sharing together, amusement, laughing to the children and adults at our studies of animation.

At Theatre Pembe Kurbaga it is presented being integrated the social aims with health aims and mental health aims on the prologues and performances.

On all performances it is spoken with pure and clean language.

We try to reflect the truth becoming friends with them while the children are having good times.

We act in conscious that the adults of future are ready to pick up every attitude and word of us.

Pembe Kurbaga, has a permanent staff of carrying dinamism in has carried on producing and speaking authoritatively in the field of children at Tv programmes both playwriting and acting and presenting also since 1984.

Our aim is not to make big promises. Embracing the children without turning our principle of the love and respect to children. And walking on this way taking your support with the conscious and responsibility of that you are beside us.