Performing in a Landscape of Forgetting Theatre Research International
Vol. 44, Issue 3, October 2019 Cambridge University Press
An essay by Ayşe Draz published in Theatre Research International, reflecting on the absence of collective memory in Turkish performing arts. Taking the journey of Tiyatro Hemhâl to a southern Turkish village as its starting point, the piece traces a broader argument: that the unrecorded history of performance in Turkey leaves each generation unable to build on the work of those before them. In a socio-political context that Draz argues actively promotes forgetting, the act of documenting becomes both an artistic responsibility and a form of resistance.