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Kurdish Resistance and the Dramaturgy of Fire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2019

Extract

Fire is one of the most magical elements in existence. It is everywhere: in the sky and on the ground, in hearts and in minds, inside and out, in water, in the air and in the soil … It is both divine and demonic. It is between light and dark. It is the source of both life and death. It is a clash. A clash that gave rise to our existence and, simultaneously, the creation of an error.

Type
Reflections on Turkish Theatre
Copyright
Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2019 

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Footnotes

This piece is written with the financial contributions of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Fellowship of Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. The translator was Lucy Wood.

References

Notes

2 The geographical area inhabited by Kurds in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.

3 Zêdo, Çetoyê and Akkuzu, Yavuz, Kurt Tiyatro Tarihi (Dîroka Şanoya Kurdî) (Istanbul: Peywend Yayınları, 2015), p. 62Google Scholar.

4 Metin, Mirza, Jêrzemîn/Şanoya li Jêrzemînê (Diyarbakir: Diyarbakır Büyükşehir Belediyesi Yayınları, 2014), p. 21Google Scholar.

5 Ibid., pp. 23–30.

6 This information is drawn from an unpublished interview that I conducted with actor–director Erdal Ceviz, who works at the Theatre Jiyan Nû.