UID:
edocfu_9959716064802883
Format:
1 online resource (pages 187-213) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780857420015
Series Statement:
Contemporary World Drama
Content:
"Home Sweet Home, a site-specific documentary performance, brings up a few of the most contested issues in Turkey, ranging from the atrocities involving the Armenian Ottomans during the First World War to the continuing Kurdish conflict. Home Sweet Home was first performed in an abandoned Armenian church in the predominantly Kurdish south-eastern city of Diyarbakır, an extremely impoverished region. In every city where it was performed, Home Sweet Home was recreated in a location that was significant to the past and present of that city. Koyuncuoğlu prefers places that were once a vital part of daily life but have now been abandoned, places that were used by different cultures but then changed or lost their identities. The play interrogates the concepts of home, house, and land, all of which are extremely important in a geography where Armenians, Kurds, and Turks (among others) have been continually displaced. However, given the scope of conflicts throughout the world and countless populations displaced because of violence, poverty, or political unrest, Home Sweet Home reverberates with themes that are globally relevant. Home Sweet Home is inspired by real events and real places."--Introduction.
Note:
Title from title page (viewed August 27, 2021).
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Characters: Woman, Man, Young girl, group of local men, Group leader, young volunteers.
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In English.
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Original language in Turkish.
In:
Solum, and other plays from Turkey., London, England : Seagull Books London, 2011., Pages 184-213, 9780857420015
Language:
English
Keywords:
Drama.
