TİYATRODA BİTMEYEN BİR TARTIŞMA ÇAĞDAŞ SAHNE BİÇİMİ SORUNU

Abstract

At the end of the 19th century, the attempts of the realists, who fought against the inauthentic and unreal melodramas and the escapist plays of the Romantics in order to turn the stage into a place where realities provided by scientific and objective observation were presented, brought about changes in both the text and stage design. The middle class in the 18th century, turning against the ceremonious theatrical representations in baroque entertainment, tended to watch the plays which offered an internalized analysis of the problems of humanity. The Realists of the 19th century darkened the theatre hall and placed the play within the frame so that they could influence the audience with the reality they brought to the scene in order to make them forget they are in the theatre and believe what they see on the stage is real. After all, through “the fourth wall”, separation between the stage and the audience was firmly established. The fact that the writers who propounded realist theory unwittingly changed the theatrical experience based on interaction with the audience, thus, caused many theatre critics to oppose the realist theatre. In this study, the subject is examined from a historical point of view.