Abstract
Having produced great works in various styles such as novel, story, poem and drama, Orhan Kemal is one of the most important artists in the Turkish Literature of the Republican period. The author, who lived between 1914 and 1970, conveys the problems of common person that he handles from a socialist realist perspective in a dramatic style and with a critical attention. Among his works, the number of the ones of drama is 5. However, the four of these have been adapted from his stories and novels. The Finches is his only work that he wrote directly as a play. It was first staged in 1964 and published in 1965. Later on, it is staged with the name of District Governor of Yalova. The ordinary life and impossibilities of common person constitute the theme of his plays, like it is in his novels. His plays were later published as All His Plays I-II.
In this study, the play titled The Finches was dealt in the context of name-content, plot, conflicts, the cast of characters, setting, the point of view-narrator and theme. In terms of name-content, a link was tried to be established between the title of the play and the text, and so, the title and content relationship was presented. In the lines in which the plot was narrated, the event was described at first. Then, the parts and conflicts creating the event itself were examined. In the cast of characters, people having a role in the play were presented according to importance and characteristics. Thorough setting, the time of the main event in the play and the places as the scenes of the play were emphasized. In the part of the point of view and narrator, from which point of view the play was written and how it was narrated, i.e. the narrator type, were focused. Regarding the theme, all themes in the play were listed and tried to be explained. Considering all the findings obtained for the play, a general evaluation was made in the conclusion part.