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| '''Teatra Jiyana Nû''' is a Kurdish Theatre Company based in ]; Turkey established in 1992. It is one of the best known theatre groups in the ] and several of their former actors founded new theatre groups in other cities. | '''Teatra Jiyana Nû''' is a Kurdish Theatre Company based in ]; Turkey established in 1992. It is one of the best known theatre groups in the ] and several of their former actors founded new theatre groups in other cities. | ||
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Kurdish language theatre groupTeatra Jiyana Nû is a Kurdish Theatre Company based in Istanbul; Turkey established in 1992. It is one of the best known theatre groups in the Kurdish language and several of their former actors founded new theatre groups in other cities.
Origins
Kurdish Theatre was for long prohibited in Turkey just as was the Kurdish language. In the Kurdish provinces in Turkey, Kurdish language plays were not able to be performed legally. A legal Kurdish theatre culture was first known in Istanbul, after the Kurdish language was allowed to be spoken in 1991. The same year, the Mesopatamia Cultural Center (Kurdish:Navenda Çanda Mezopotamya, NÇM; Turkish: Mezopotamya Kültür Merkezi, MKM) was established in Istanbul. The MKM had an art department which included a theatre group. The first theatre play performed in 1991 was Misko (Kurdish:Mouse).
History
After a theatre festival in Adana the next year in which the theatre group of the MKM consisting of Kazim Öz and Kemal Organ among others performed Bu Şivan (Two sheperds), the Teatra Jiyana Nu was founded and in June 1992. In the TJN subdivisions Theatre Helin apprentices were trained for two years after which they were able to try their acting at the Sarya Halk Sahnesi which staged short agitprop sketches on strikes or union gatherings. Several plays written by Hüseyin Kaytan such as Daweya Cenaralê Teneke (Tin General Case) were performed until 1995.In 1995, Mamoste Cemil, a major figure in Kurdish Theatre who lead MKMs art after its establishment, became the leader of the group. In 2003 the TJN performed their first foreign piece with Aeschylus play Prometheus bound. A kurdish adaption of the South African Athol Fugards Island in 2004 and the Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo in 2005 were other foreign adaptions.
References
- ^ Rostami, Mari R. (2021), Gunes, Cengiz; Bozarslan, Hamit; Yadirgi, Veli (eds.), "A History of Kurdish Theatre", The Cambridge History of the Kurds, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 735, ISBN 978-1-108-47335-4, retrieved 2022-07-29
- Baş, Elif (September 2015). "The Rise of Kurdish Theatre in Istanbul". Theatre Survey. 56 (3): 314. doi:10.1017/S0040557415000289. ISSN 0040-5574 – via Cambridge University.
- Baş, Elif (September 2015),p.320
- ^ Rostami, Mari R. (2021),p.736