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Mark Ravenhill’in Kötü Şöhretli Oyununda Güç ve Şiddet İlişkisi

Year 2021, Issue: 11, 187 - 203, 01.12.2021
https://doi.org/10.21733/ibad.916782

Abstract

Yirminci yüzyıl savaşlar, soykırımlar, ve çatışmalar nedeniyle en az 100 milyon insanın ölümüne tanık oldu. 20. yüzyılın son on yılında ortaya çıkan felaket ve şiddet olayları Britanya'da suratına tiyatro gibi yeni tiyatro akımına yol açtı. Bu hareketin öncülerinden biri olan Mark Ravenhill, şiddet olayına dair yeni bir farkındalık yaratmak için gerçekleri sahneye taşımaya başlamıştır. Bu çalışma, Foucault’un şiddete karşı bakış açısının Mark Ravenhill’in Alışveriş ve S***ş adlı eserinde nasıl ortaya çıktığını göstermeye çalışmaktadır. Bu oyun ilk olarak 26 Eylül 1996'da Royal Court Tiyatrosu'nda sahnelenmiştir. İçerikle birlikte başlık da izleyicileri şok etmek için yeterli olmuştır. Oyun yazarı, oyunlarına her zaman dikkat çekici başlıklar bulmuştur, fakat bu oyunun başlığı Alışveris ve S***ş şeklinde asteriksler kullanılarak yazıldığı için diğerlerinden daha fazla şimşekleri üzerine çekmiştir. Kısaca bu makalenin amacı, Ravenhill’in kötü şöhretli oyununda şiddetin dinamizmini, değişimlerini, sosyo-politik önemini ve etkilerini güç ve aile ilişkilerini de dikkate alarak analiz etmektir.

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YOK

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YOK

References

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Violence and Power Relations in Mark Ravenhill's Notorious Play

Year 2021, Issue: 11, 187 - 203, 01.12.2021
https://doi.org/10.21733/ibad.916782

Abstract

The twentieth century witnessed the death of at least 100 million people due to wars, genocides, and conflicts. Catastrophic and violent events that emerged in the last decades of the 20th century led to new trends in Britain, such as in-yer-face theatre. One of the forerunners of this movement, Mark Ravenhill, reflected the realities on stage in order to create a new awareness about the case of violence. In this respect, this study will attempt to demonstrate that the Foucauldian approach to violence did immensely affect the English drama of the time by apparently showing itself in Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking. This play was first performed on 26th September, 1996 at the Royal Court Theatre. Together with the content, the title is enough to shock the public. The playwright is surely good at finding affective titles for his plays; however, this one affects the norms and values more than the others since the title of the play is printed with asterisks as Shopping and F***ing. Shortly, the aim of this article is to analyze the dynamism, changes, socio-political importance, and effects of violence in Ravenhill’s infamous play by taking power and family relations into consideration.

Project Number

YOK

References

  • Aragay, M. (2007). British Theatre of the 1990s: Interviews with Directors, Playwrights, Critics and Academicians. Ed. Hildegard Klein, Enric Monforte and Pilar Zozoya Hampshire:Palgrave.
  • Foucault, M. (1978a). History of Sexuality. Volume I: An Introduction. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Pantheon Books.
  • ---. (1988c). “An Interview with Michel Foucault Conducted by Michael Bess”History of the Present, 4: 1-2 pp. 11-13. San Francisco, viewed 26 April2018.http://anthroposlab.net/wp/publications/2009/05/hotp1988.pdf
  • ---. (1995). Discipline & Punish:The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books.
  • ---. (2001c)“The Subject and Power”. Power (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984). Ed. James D. Faubion. New York: The New Press.
  • ---. (2006). Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the College de France 1973-1974. Ed. Jacques Lagrange. Trans. Graham Burchell. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Huyssen, A. (2003). “Rewritings and New Beginnings: W. G. Sebald and the Literature on the Air War.” Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory. Cultural Memory in the Present. Eds. Mieke Bal and Hent de Vries. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP.
  • Ravenhill, M. (2001). Plays 1: Shopping and Fucking. London: Methuen Drama, 2001. Print
  • Rebellato, D. (2001). “Introduction”. Shopping and Fucking: Plays 1. Mark Ravenhill. London. Methuen Drama.
  • Saunders, G. (2008).“Introduction”. Cool Britannia? British Political Drama in the 1990s. Ed. Rebecca D’Monte & Graham Saunders: New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Sierz, A. (2000). In-yer-face Theatre. British Drama Today. London: Faber & Faber.
  • ---. (2012).Modern British Playwritings:The 1990s Voices, Documents, New Interpretations. London: Methuen Drama.
  • Urban, K. (2008). “Cruel Britannia”. Cool Britannia? British Political Drama in the 1990s. Ed. Rebecca D’Monte & Graham Saunders: New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Zizek, S. (2008). Violence. New York: Picador.
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Primary Language English
Journal Section Original Articles
Authors

Samet Guven 0000-0001-6883-5109

Timuçin Buğra Edman 0000-0002-5103-4791

Project Number YOK
Publication Date December 1, 2021
Acceptance Date May 22, 2021
Published in Issue Year 2021 Issue: 11

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APA Guven, S., & Edman, T. B. (2021). Violence and Power Relations in Mark Ravenhill’s Notorious Play. IBAD Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi(11), 187-203. https://doi.org/10.21733/ibad.916782

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