PHILIP RIDLEY’İ N K Ü RKL Ü MERKÜR ADLI OYUNUNDA LABİRENT İMSİ MEKANIN TEMS İLİ
THE LABYRINTHINE SPACE AS REFLECTED IN PHILIP RIDLEYRIDLEY’S PLAY MERCURY FUR

Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on Philip Ridley’s Mercury Fur ( a play which explores various meanings related to a physical labyrinth, memory as a maze, mirror/glass as a l abyrinth, etc. The present study aims to disclose primarily the significance of the physical labyrinth, presented in Ridley’s play mostly as a radical space, a reminiscent of Foucault’s “ in which the characters cannot be domiciled, but are ra ther haunted, their inevitable entrapment creating a perpetual existential feeling of anxiety. This study also attempts to discuss the issue of memory as a maze, revealing the playwright’s concern for the precariousness of memory while the national or indi vidual identities are pursued. In a space in which everyone and everything is manipulated, Ridley’s characters, in their struggle for survival, are forced to re negotiate all the known thresholds of cruelty and transgression in order to discover the path l eading them to humanness and morality

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