Tek Perdelik Oyunların Karakteristik Özellikleri ve Türk Tiyatrosu’ndan Metin Çözümlemeleri
Characteristic Features of the One- Act Plays and Text Analysis from the Turkish Theatre

Summary/Abstract: In this study, the main findings on the theme and technique of one-act plays are listed in the light of the data in the introduction chapter of Benjamin Roland Lewis’ Contemporary One-Act Plays book. The aim of this study is to reveal the characteristics of one-act plays which are considered as a new dramatic genre in terms of the theme and the technique in the light of the analyzes carried out with a text-oriented approach. In order to achieve this aim, nine one-act plays were selected from the Republican Period of the Turkish Theatre (1980-2000): Adalet Ağaoğlu, Duvar Öyküsü; Turgut Özakman; Ben, Mimar Sinan; Sabahattin Kudret Aksal, Bay Hiç; Murathan Mungan, Bir Garip Orhan Veli; Güngör Dilmen, Galatea ile Pigmalion; Nezihe Meriç, Sevdican; Sezai Karakoç, Çeyiz; Orhan Asena, Bir Küçük Gece Müziği; Turan Oflazoğlu, Çağrı. These works were analyzed in the light of data presented in the introduction section of Benjamin Roland Lewis’ book named Contemporary One-Act Plays. In the introductory part of the study, one-act plays are briefly introduced and the scope of the study is made clear. In the first part the subject, in the second part the technique, in the third part the dialogue, in the fourth part the stage- business and stage-direction in the one-act plays, in the fifth part the one-act play analyzes are discussed and in the sixth part the results obtained from the study are listed. In one-act plays, the singleness of impression and dramatic effect to be left on the reader/ audience, the skilled workmanship of the play wright in the process of bringing technical elements together, the pursuit of the rare, rather than the situations often encountered in everyday life, handling of the most crucial points of every stage of human life and the desire to reveal the whole; the small number of people, the limitation of time and space, but their intensity and depth; subject diversity (mythology, history, mysticism, psychology, philosophy, migration, love, passion, art, aesthetics, etc.) are among the characteristic features of one-act plays identified throughout the study. One-act play is the feast of the climax in the art of drama/theater.

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