Oda Tiyatrosu

About Oda Tiyatrosu

Oda Tiyatrosu (the "Room Theatre") is one of the Ankara State Theatre's stages and its most intimate, with just 60 seats. It sits in Ulus inside the II. Evkaf Apartmanı, the Foundations building that also houses the larger Küçük Tiyatro and the headquarters of the General Directorate of State Theatres, facing Gençlik Parkı. According to Turkish Wikipedia, the hall was never designed as a theatre. After the Ankara State Theatre was formally founded in 1949, its first halls, Küçük Tiyatro and Büyük Tiyatro, soon proved too few for the growing Turkish theatre scene. Muhsin Ertuğrul, then General Director of the State Theatres, opened the Halkevi stage and then, on 5 October 1956, the Oda Tiyatrosu, created by converting an office in the building into a performance space. It has a proscenium stage and a single level of seating. The State Theatre uses the room for smaller-scale productions. The November 2026 programme includes Patrick Süskind's Kontrabas, Fernando Arrabal's Cephede Piknik and Jean Tardieu's Gişe, and Wikipedia lists Abdullah Öztürk's Holden'in Külkedileri as a premiere here in the 2022-2023 season. Performances in the current schedule start at 18:30, earlier than the 20:00 start used on most of the company's other stages, and with only 60 seats some performances sell out, so it is worth booking ahead through the State Theatres' online ticketing on Biletinial. Check the current programme before you go.