Politik tiyatronun solo sesi: Anna Deavere Smith
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Date
2018-07-31
Authors
Baş, Elif
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Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi
Abstract
Bu çalışma, Afro-Amerikalı oyun yazarı, oyuncu ve akademisyen Anna Deavere Smith’in 1980’lerde oyun yazmak için şekillendirmeye başladığı röportaj tekniğini konu alır. Smith, belli bir konu hakkında yaptığı röportajları bir araya getirerek, o konuyu tüm boyutlarıyla sahnelemeye çalışır. Özellikle kimlik, toplumsal cinsiyet ve ırk gibi politik meseleler hakkında farklı görüşler ortaya koyarken, insanların kendi çelişkilerini de gözler önüne serer. Bunu nasıl başardığı kısaca “Fires in the Mirror” oyunuyla örneklendirilir. Bu konulara bakış açısı, Smith’in oluşturduğu oyunculuk metoduyla da bağlantılı olduğundan, son olarak oyunculukta benimsediği yönteme değinilir. Tüm bu bilgiler ışığında Smith’in hangi açıdan “geleneksel” politik tiyatronun dışında kaldığı ve kendine özgü ne tür politik performanslar sergilediği ortaya konur.
Anna Deavere Smith is an African American playwright, performer and an academician who has created a unique technique in creating her plays. This article examines her journalistic technique of interviewing people and building a performance text out of interviews. Smith uses solo performance as a medium to explore issues of race, identity and gender. Her plays, as in “Fires in the Mirror”, reveal contradictory notions of individuals on such matters in order to show that identity is not singular but is multi-layered and more complex than we think. This article also discusses her method of acting as it is closely related to her ideas on identity and race. Overall, the article demonstrates the ways Anna Deavere Smith challenges the principles of traditional political theatre and how she creates a more fluid, intricate and dynamic way of understanding identity and political performance.
Anna Deavere Smith is an African American playwright, performer and an academician who has created a unique technique in creating her plays. This article examines her journalistic technique of interviewing people and building a performance text out of interviews. Smith uses solo performance as a medium to explore issues of race, identity and gender. Her plays, as in “Fires in the Mirror”, reveal contradictory notions of individuals on such matters in order to show that identity is not singular but is multi-layered and more complex than we think. This article also discusses her method of acting as it is closely related to her ideas on identity and race. Overall, the article demonstrates the ways Anna Deavere Smith challenges the principles of traditional political theatre and how she creates a more fluid, intricate and dynamic way of understanding identity and political performance.
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Anna Deavere Smith, Amerikan tiyatrosu, Politik tiyatro, Solo performans, Röportaj tekniği, American drama, Political theatre, Solo performance, Verbatim theatre
Citation
Baş, E. (2018). “Politik tiyatronun solo sesi: Anna Deavere Smith”. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 19(35), 829-848.