THE SIMILARITY BETWEEN A PLAY AND LIFE IN THE THEATER SCRIPT OF “İBİŞ’İN RÜYASI”


İbiş’in Rüyası, one of the remarkable theater scripts of Tarık Buğra, is an important work of Turkish literature in terms of both the way the characters are impersonated and the theatrical technique. The script, which had first been designed as a theater script but then embodied as a novel, was later also written as a theater script. The script of the play İbiş’in Rüyası, which is presented on stage, is placed in the events in the backstage, while the actors Nahit and Hatice’s stories of getting to know each other and falling in love are told in the outer story. At the very outside of these two scripts is the character Vasıf, in the role of a public storyteller from time to time, who implicates the events that area boutto happen to Nahit and Hatice. While the character soft he play in this three-layered structure go back and forth between th e destiny and the script of the play and between real life and the play, rich depictions of a soul emerge, and from time to time, slices of the lives of Tarık Buğra, the writer of the script, and Naşit Özcan, a theater actor, are presented. Combining traditional theater with modern theater, the work is ornamented with references to the leading representatives of Turkish literature as well as the world theater-besides the Turkish theater-through expressions in the conversations of the characters. The transition of İbiş to Nahit, and Nahit to Tarık Buğra, suggests that this script can be read as a script of a dream with in a dream, given Freud’s theory about “writers and day dreams.” The picture, where God determines the fate of the servants, Tarık Buğra writes the character Nahit, and Nahit almost determines İbiş’s fate by writing his character, is important in that the script draws attention to the concepts of “writing, destiny, and creativity.” Tarık Buğra, who worked his magic in creating characters in addition to theatrical fictions, questioned people in the script of İbiş’in Rüyası, as in other scripts of him. The aim of this study is to examine the intertwined scripts in the theater script of İbiş’in Rüyası written by Tarık Buğra, in the context of a dream, destiny,creativity and play.


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Tarık Buğra, theater, İbiş’in Rüyası, play, dream, fate.

Author : Ferda ATLI
Number of pages: 1719-1736
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.36986
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Turkish Studies - Language and Literature
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