Cimri

Semaver Kumpanya has been performing Molière’s famous play “Cimri” (The Miser) to sold-out audiences for six seasons, with Tansu Biçer’s interpretation and Serkan Keskin’s widely praised performance as Harpagon.

“He is the least human of all people; the coldest-hearted of all living beings; the stingiest of the stingy. There is nothing warm in his love, nothing gentle in his touch. Giving pains him so much that he won’t even offer a greeting — he takes even that. He only takes…”
This is how those who know Cimri describe him.
But who is Cimri, really? Is he truly as cruel, cold-hearted, stingy, and wicked as they say?
Is someone born like that? Or is he merely a written character?
Do people like him actually exist around us?
And what would it be like to live with someone like him?

In Molière’s 17th-century classic Cimri, the play offers a window into the complex dynamics of individuals and families — shifting between focusing on a particular class and making broader generalizations — while revealing strange coincidences and human truths.

Credits
Written by: Molière
Translated by: Sabahattin Eyüboğlu
Directed by: Tansu Biçer
Assistant Directors: Volkan M. Sarıöz, Selin Nazlı Ustaoğlu
Dramaturgy: Bilgesu Kasapoğlu
Lighting Design: Utku İnan
Lighting Execution: Mustafa Karakoyun
Set Design: Tansu Biçer
Set Execution: Zeki İlyas Kızılışık, İsmail Hazır, Sema Öztaş
Costume Design: Bade Yavuz
Costume Execution: Ayşenur Arslanoğlu
Music: Okan Kaya, Ömer Öztüyen

Cast:
Harpagon: Serkan Keskin
Frosine: Sezin Bozacı
Jacques Usta: Ahmet Kaynak
Valère: Mertcan Ertürk
Cléante: Metin Alpargun
Elise: Cansu Saka
La Flèche: Onur Yalçınkaya
Mariane: Nisan Yenigül
Anselme: Onur Şenol
Claude Kadın: Selen Şenay
Simon Efendi & Komiser: Uğur Senkeri
La Merluche: Saniye Samra