‘Molière Marathon’ at Istanbul Theater Festival
French comedy writer celebrating his 400th birthday at the 26th Istanbul Theater Festival Moliere‘s games seem to be given importance. In addition to local productions, three masterpieces were adapted for the big screen and staged in France’s oldest living theater, the Comedie-Française, founded in 1680. “Sick of Sickness”, “Idiot of Kindness” and “Tartuffe or Hypocrisy” The screenings of the games are also on 12 November. “Molière Marathon” was presented at Atlas 1948 Cinema in three separate sessions. It was a pleasure to watch the Comedie-Française productions of these staged plays that we have seen with original or adapted texts.
EXPERIENCE IN COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE
Molière left his mark on neoclassical French comedy, which lived through the Renaissance in the 17th century, by fusing the laughing tradition of French Persians with the writings and acting of the Commedia dell’Arte.
After a rigorous training in classical cultural dimensions from priests in a Jesuit school, Molière chose a grim but scenic theatrical life that led him to immortality. He was 21 when he founded his first establishment. He would make up for his lack of experience during his traveling theatrical adventure after he was imprisoned for being up to his neck in debt, and after he was expelled from Paris with his troupe, especially after learning the intricacies of the famous folk theater Commedia dell’Arte, a product of Renaissance Italy.
Molière theater is adorned with Persian elements for laughter at one end. At the other extreme, it embraces a sharply critical approach to social place. Molière is also an act of removing people’s flaws or weaknesses. “character comedy” He is a master. XIV. Louis He looks at the society and people of the period through the glasses of humor. What he sees is vulgarity, passion for money, religious bigotry, pedantry revealing ignorance, monetary/religious exploitation, extraction, artificiality, lovelessness. The author, who puts people with these features on the stage, displays the humorous environment he created in his critique. The symmetrical (symmetrical) structure of the plays, where love, father-son, master-servant, rich-poor conflicts and the ridiculous/pathetic situations brought about by exploited naive people in cross or parallel event clusters merge sweetly as a result of cunning scams and happy coincidences, It was founded according to the tradition of ancient Greek and Roman comedy. But Molière’s “funny world view” -just as Shakespearelike the- “tragic world view” is intertwined with.
THREE MOLIÈRE GAMES FROM THE COMEDY FRANÇAISE
of the festival “Molière Marathon”first of the watched games “Hypochondriac”was. Argan, whose purity is used by those who use the profession of medicine for the sake of gain. “hypochondriac”The play, which expresses the ridiculous and pathetic test that has emerged from its return to life, was presented with an acting style in a costume design embellished with details reminiscent of period clothes.
“The Kindness Fool”s Monsieur Jourdain, on the other hand, is a nobility-savvy bourgeois who masquerades the electorate in order to educate him. The play, one of Molière’s works in the theater-ballet genre, is integrated with music, dance and movement. “promise”It still delivers a performance where the reputation is still at the forefront. The game unfolds in a visual agility, where the magnificent scenery facade on the back planet of the scene, period clothes intersect with contemporary sci-fi and cartoon images.
Impressions of the exploitation of a religious person named Orgon by the charlatan named Tartüf “Tartuffe or Hypocrisy” In 1664, when it was first put on the stage, XIV. It was banned by Louis under pressure from the church. The play, which was written two more times until the 1669 songs to be allowed to be played, could not be saved from the pressure of censorship, has been, since then, “religious hypocrisy” With his courageous approach to prevent the phenomenon, he remained on the agenda as a symbol of opposition to the exploitation of belief. The work is played for the first time with the original uncensored text and original title. Playgroups, dressed in contemporary outfits, are located on the white platform of the meeting centers – the front of the stage – and the place is moved with a modern interpretation that gives a sense of slow motion.
The main reason why Molière plays are staged all over the world today must be that humanity continues its flaws and mistakes in the intervening endings…