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Spectacular Regimes and Political Drama: A Comparative Study of Greek and Turkish Theatre in the 1960s and 1970s

Celik, Ipek Azime
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391616872

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2002, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Comparative Studies.
Greek playwright George Skourtis’s play The Nannies (1970) and Turkish playwright Vasif Ongoren’s Rich Man’s Kitchen (1977) dramatize a new era in the relationship between drama and politics in Greece and Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s. These playwrights, drawing upon the potentials of texts, genre, and contexts, questioned the legitimacy of the regimes of the period. This thesis investigates why and how theatre in Greece and Turkey departed from the official model, which constructed a modern, western and national Greek and Turkish identity. Instead, it became a resistant alternative enterprise. The crisis of representation in the politics of identity intensifies especially during times when the regimes are totalitarian (in the case of Greece between 1967-1974) or polarized (in the case of Turkey during the 1970s). These contexts offered an abundant resource for drama as a result of the visualization of power and conflict and thus the theatricality of the regimes. Artistic productivity flourished during these periods in spite of the constraints imposed by the context. Theatrical genres led the communication between the texts and the contexts. Through the genres of protest (Theatre of the Absurd in Greece and Epic Theatre in Turkey) the theatres of these two countries defined alternative identities that are not, in most cases, compatible with the official construction of a national identity. I am exploring this dynamic narrativity in the contexts of increased tensions. This thesis brings together theories of theatrical performance, dramatic literature, identity and politics in the cases of Greece and Turkey. As countries that had (or have) been on the fringes of the west, latecomers in the nationalization and modernization projects, they have similar acculturation processes. Thus they offer a rich database for the study of formation and development of cultural identity under modem nation states. An artful dialogue between these theatres overturns the rival nationalist identities and promotes more compatible local and cosmopolitan narratives.
Dorothy Noyes (Advisor)
Stratos Constantinidis (Advisor)
Sabra J. Webber (Committee Member)
84 p.
Comparative Literature

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  • Celik, I. A. (2002). Spectacular Regimes and Political Drama: A Comparative Study of Greek and Turkish Theatre in the 1960s and 1970s [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391616872

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Celik, Ipek. Spectacular Regimes and Political Drama: A Comparative Study of Greek and Turkish Theatre in the 1960s and 1970s. 2002. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391616872.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Celik, Ipek. "Spectacular Regimes and Political Drama: A Comparative Study of Greek and Turkish Theatre in the 1960s and 1970s." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391616872

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