SERSEM KOCANIN KURNAZ KARISI: OYUN İÇİNDE HANGİ OYUN?

Haldun Taner is one of the important play writers of the Turkish theater. In his play “Sersem Kocanın Kurnaz Karısı (Shrewd Wife of Silly Husband)”, there is a fiction like "the play within the play". Several related issues discussed in a spiral form within this play, mainly the story of searching the identity of Turkish theater is described. Taner has choosen the leading names of Turkish theater history as the hero in his play. So a structure which we can say that it is multi-dimensional is created. In technical sense for the Turkish theater, Taner suggests to combine Western style with a traditional theater. In his play Ayışığında Şamata (Uproar in the moonlight) there is also “the play within the play” fiction. But here, the role imposed by the writer for audience attracts our attention. What the audiences say was determined by the writer like the players. In the play “Sersem Kocanın Kurnaz Karısı”, he even wrote “George Dandin” the play of Moliére in three different formats again. Thus, he wants to show how to interprete the three men of the theater to the same play . Therefore, we think that Haldun Taner is not only a writer, he also bears partly the directorial role.