Impact Of Brecht On Turkish Theatre

Epical theatre concept was first proposed by Ber-tolt Brecht who was a German theatre writer as well as a theorist. It was developed as a result of begin influenced by Erwin Piscator’s theatre understanding affected by the political, social and economic strains after the First World War. In Turkish theatre, the first epical plays were writ¬ten in 1960’s by Haldun Taner. He was followed by Vasıf Öngören, Sermet Çağan, Oktay Arayıcı, İsmet Küntay and Turhan Selçuk. In this article Bertolt Brecht and epical theatre is explained and its influences to Turkish theatre are clari¬fied. The epical theater plays written by Haldun Taner, Vasıf Öngören and Sermet Çağan are introduced.

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Bertolt Brecht, epical theatre political theatre, Haldun Taner, Vasıf Öngören and Sermet Çağan, mode