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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2019

SEDA ILTER
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Abstract

The sociopolitical turbulence in the recent history of Turkey has radically affected the theatre and performance scene. In a climate of fear and repression, performing arts have been fighting for survival and developing ways to endure the dark times, to achieve freedom of artistic expression and open platforms for critical communication. This collection of articles considers contemporary theatre and performance in Turkey, reflecting on some of the complex issues that practitioners, academics and institutions have faced in the current political environment. Each author presents a part of the complex picture of theatre and performance culture in Turkey, and hopes to start a conversation about this oppressed, yet fertile, artistic landscape.

Type
Reflections on Turkish Theatre
Information
Theatre Research International , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , October 2019 , pp. 291 - 295
Copyright
Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2019 

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Notes

1 Brecht, Bertolt, ‘Motto’, in Bertolt Brecht Poems 1913–1956, ed. Willet, John (New York: Routledge, 1987), p. 320Google Scholar.

2 See such sources as Elana Beiser, ‘Turkey's Crackdown Propels Number of Journalists in Jail Worldwide to Record High’, CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists (Reports), 13 December 2016, at https://cpj.org/imprisoned/2016.php, accessed 7 May 2019. Joanna Hong, ‘Erdoğan's Turkey: The World's Biggest Prison for Journalists’, Newsweek, 18 September 2018, at www.newsweek.com/erdogans-turkey-worlds-biggest-prison-journalists-opinion-1125718, accessed 7 May 2019.

3 Temelkuran, Ece, The Insane and the Melancholy (London: Zed Books, 2016), p. 274Google Scholar.

4 Ibid., p. 39.

5 See such sources as Pieter Verstraete, ‘Turkey's Artists at Risk: Dramaturgies of Resistance vs. Politics of Fear’, Textures: Online Platform for Interweaving Performance Cultures, 5 April 2018, at www.textures-platform.com/?p=4919, accessed 3 March 2019.

6 Temelkuran, The Insane and the Melancholy, p. 239.

7 See Yiğit Günay, ‘Turkey: A Prolonged Tragedy for Theatre’, Freemuse, 11 May 2017, at https://freemuse.org/news/turkey-prolonged-tragedy-theatre, accessed 3 March 2019.

8 Boenisch, Peter, The Theatre of Thomas Ostermeier (London: Routledge, 2016), p. 114CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

9 Ibid., p. 114–15.