Çağdaş İngiliz Tiyatrosu Estetiğinin Değişen Algısı ve Mark Ravenhill
Authors : Çağlayan Doğan
Pages : 113-128
Doi:10.18795/ma.70519
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Publication Date : 2016-10-30
Article Type : Research
Abstract :This study aims to scrutinize the 1990’s British theatre aesthetic and in-yer-face theatre which experienced many fluctuations that determine the movement of current theatre tendency. In-yer-face theatre was initiated in the early 1990s by appearing Sarah Kane on Royal Court. In this study, it is put forward the historical background of the British theatre from Look Back in Anger (1956) that revealed a new theatre aesthetic in that term. After the background information about in-yer-face theatre, it mainly focuses on Mark Ravenhill who is one of the most prominent figures of British Theatre in1990’s which is called nasty nineties that includes in violence, scenes of rape, cannibalism, depression, alienation, consumerist culture, and sexuality on stage.Keywords : Contemporary British Theatre, Mark Ravenhill, In-yer-face Theatre