"Paravalar" play poster and brochure (METU Players, 2001)

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2001

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"The Screens" (Les Paravents) was written by the famous Lebanese-French writer Jean Genet in 1961. It is a written theater play. The play is one of Genet's leading works and is a complex It has structure. While it deals with social taboos, sexuality and power relations, it also questions the boundaries between imagination and reality. "Fears" takes place in a village in the Middle East. The game is about a group of people living behind a wall. It depicts a society where women are on the other side of the wall and men are on the other side of the wall. Women, They establish relationships through fronts to have sexual intercourse with men behind the wall. These relationships reflect society's various taboos and power relations. The play tells the story of the men and women living behind the wall. women on the wall They communicate through fronts to have sexual intercourse with men on the other side. These relationships form a complex allegory on both sexuality and power relations. The play explores the relationships women establish through fronts and the social and social aspects of these relationships. examines the psychological dynamics. At the same time, the world of men beyond the wall and It also deals with their power struggle. Genet constructs the play in an extraordinary way and blurs the boundaries between reality and imagination. blurs. The identities and relationships of the characters keep the audience interested in reality. questioning, it also explores issues related to social taboos and sexuality in depth. examines.

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METU theater plays, Art on campus, Paravanlar

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/106353
https://bellek.metu.edu.tr/handle/11511/106353

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