‘Duygusal Yönden Bodur Anarşistler’ mi Yoksa ‘Sadece Ergenlik’ mi? Enda Walsh’un Disco Pigs (1996) Oyunu Üzerine Alternatif bir Yorum

Year 2020, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 578 - 596, 29.12.2020

Nursen Gömceli

https://doi.org/10.29110/soylemdergi.786607

Abstract

Enda Walsh’un 1990’ların sonlarına doğru ve Cork’ta geçen Disco Pigs (1996) [Disko Domuzları] adlı oyunu iki gencin on yedinci yaş günlerinin hemen öncesinde, yaşamlarının iki günlük bir kısmında gerçekleştirdikleri çeşitli eylemleri sahneye koyarak onların yaşantılarına odaklanır. İrlanda’lı oyun yazarına kariyerinin henüz başlangıç yıllarında büyük uluslararası beğeni kazandıran ve aynı zamanda çağdaş İrlanda tiyatrosunun da en dikkat çeken oyun yazarlarından biri olarak kendini kabul ettirmesini sağlayan Disco Pigs, 1996 yılında gerçekleşen ilk gösterimini takiben uzun yıllar boyunca eleştirel ilginin merkezinde kalmıştır. Oyun, son derece dinamik bir tempoda sahnelenişine yapılan övgülülerle birlikte yıllar boyu çoğunlukla olumlu eleştiriler alırken, oyunun iki ana karakteri toplum içinde ve kendi özel dünyalarında sergiledikleri davranış biçimleriyle büyük oranda olumsuz açıdan ele alınmışlardır. Bu yazının amacı, Walsh`un “disko domuzlarına” yöneltilen bu olumsuz eleştirilerden hareketle, adolesan psikiyatrisi ve gelişimsel psikoloji kuramları ışığında ayrıntılı bir karakter çözümlemesi yoluyla oyun üzerine alternatif bir yorum sunmaktır. Oyuna uyarlanan bu yeni yaklaşımla, bu çalışma Disco Pigs üzerine daha başka tartışmaların yapılmasını teşvik etmeyi ve oyun üzerine yapılan mevcut bilimsel incelemelere katkıda bulunmayı ümit eder.

Keywords

Enda Walsh, Disco Pigs, adolesan dönemi, adolesan psikiyatrisi, gelisimsel psikoloji, ergen aşkı, ergen şiddeti

‘Emotionally Stunted Anarchists’ or ‘Simply Teenagers’? An Alternative Reading of Enda Walsh`s Disco Pigs (1996)

Abstract

Enda Walsh`s Disco Pigs (1996), set in Cork in the late 1990s, is a play that focuses on the lives of two teenagers by dramatizing their various activities over a two-day period, soon before their seventeenth birthday. Having brought the Irish playwright great international acclaim while at the same time enabling him to establish his position as one of the most prominent playwrights of contemporary Irish drama and theatre immediately in his early career, Disco Pigs has remained in the centre of critical attention for many years following its premiere in 1996. While the play has mainly received positive criticism over the years with much praise for its highly dynamic performance, its two central figures have largely been approached negatively for the way they function in the public world and in their own private world. Setting out with such negative criticism raised of Walsh`s “disco pigs”, the aim of this paper is to offer an alternative reading of the play through a detailed character analysis in the light of theories of adolescent psychiatry and developmental psychology and thus to show to what extent the two protagonists of the play display the features of adolescence. Since this play by Walsh has previously been analysed at length within the frame of postdramatic theatre by James (2020) and Gömceli (2017), this study will present a discussion of the play independent of its postdramatic theatre features. With this novel approach to the play, the present study hopes to initiate further discussion on Disco Pigs and to contribute to the existing scholarly studies on the play.  

Keywords

Enda Walsh, Disco Pigs, adolescence, adolescence psychiatry, developmental psychology, teenage infatuation, teenage violence

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