Milenyum Öncesi Oyun Yazarlığımızda Eskatoloji Mitleri
Eschatology Myths In Pre-Millennium Playwriting

Summary/Abstract: The nineties are defined by historians as ‘the longest decade’. With the world being coded as a huge village along the axis of globalization, the need for all ethnic, religious, and racial subjectivities to be evaluated as a sub-unit of this ‘global village’, the abolition of national borders, products of the global market reaching beyond the borders of the farthest villages, and magnificent advances in communication technologies have developed at a dizzying speed and has encompased the world like a web, with no public or individual boundaries pertaining to privacy. With this in mind, , I saw that there was a global approach in Turkish playwriting. First I thought that this approach was based on the concern regarding the end of the millennium equaling the end of the world. Long after I completed my doctoral dissertation, I quickly realized that these plays were in fact thematically tied to eschatological myths, without any mythological basis by the authors. I analyzed three plays written in the late nineties from a dramatic perspective. I reviewed the data obtained by the qualitative analysis method based on descriptive model in terms of structure (fictionality), content (the relation to eschatological myths), and the aesthetic dimension (the author’s artistic originality ). This review constitutes an evaluation of authors struggling to produce their own original work, their own reality and subjects, which is a local problem for our theater. At the point of importing surface aesthetics and the world’s theme, I suggestmaking the parable one’s own, by discussing and problematizing with in-depth thought. In the plays I have studied, the apocalypse, which is an ancient theme considered to be an eschatological myth, is reduced to an imported phenomenon. On the other hand, playwriters read about Christian figures like Jesus Christ and the possibilities of nuclear and cosmic catastrophe under the influence of globalization. Reading common ideas of the world as a path to its roots will ensure the originality of our authorship.

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