Simon Stephens’in Motortown Oyununda Travma Tanıklığı

Year 2018, Issue: 40, 129 - 138, 24.12.2018

Mesut Günenç

https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.515053

Abstract

Şöhreti hem İngiltere’ye hem de Avrupa’ya yayılan, en önemli çağdaş oyun
yazarlarından biri olan Simon Stephens 2006 yılında Motortown oyununu yazar. Oyun, birbirleriyle yapısal bağlantısı ve
bütünlüğü olan ve her bir sahnede korku, şiddet, endişe ve travma kavramlarını
betimleyen, sekiz sahneden oluşur. Oyunun kahramanı Danny, askerlik için Irak’a
gönderilen ve travmatik deneyim ve anılarla eve dönen, bir İngiliz askeridir.
Simon Stephens, sadece askerliği başaramamış bir şekilde eve dönen ve fiziksel
ve ruhsal acıları açığa vuran evreleri değil, aynı zamanda Irak savaşının hayal
kırıklığına uğratan sonuçlarının çağdaş İngiliz toplumu üzerindeki psikolojik
yıkımı ve aile desteğinin de olmamasıyla gözlemlenen travma faktörlerini ve
travmatik davranışları ele alan politik bir oyun tasvir eder. Bu çalışma,
travma teorisini ve savaşın etkilerini analiz ederek, Danny’nin travmatik
özgeçmişini ve çağdaş İngiliz kültüründe ki diğer karakterlerde de temel sorun
olan Danny’nin travmatik döngülerini açıklayacaktır.

Keywords

Simon Stephens, Motortown, travma, Çağdaş İngiliz Tiyatrosu

Witnessing Trauma in Simon Stephens’ Motortown

Abstract

Simon Stephens is one of the most
important contemporary playwrights whose popularity spreads out both Britain
and continental Europe. His Motortown
(2006) consists of eight scenes. Having structural order and correlations with
each other, these scenes depict notions of fear, violence, anxiety and
traumatic experiences. The play’s protagonist, Danny, is a British soldier who
is sent to Iraq for his military service and comes back home with his traumatic
memories. Simon Stephens portrays a political play which discloses the
tormenting process of Danny’s unsuccessful treatment back home. Stephens also
depicts traumatic patterns and major trauma factors observed as the lack of
family support and psychological disorders of contemporary British society,
which are the disappointing results of war in Iraq. Applying the trauma theory
and taking into consideration the effects of war, this study will illustrate
Danny’s personal background and his traumatic experiences which become central
among other characters in contemporary British culture.

Keywords

Simon Stephens, Motortown, trauma, Contemporary British Drama

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