Storyteller and meddah: similarity-contrast principle

Meddah, located between the folk theatre and epic works, is known today as storytelling. In the traditional folk theatre, the Meddah, which is regarded as the beginning of storytelling, has undergonemanychangesso far. However, it stillmaintainsitsproperties. During the study, the similarities and contrasts of the Meddah and the storytellingwereexamined and in the end, it wasaimedtodetermine the traditionalrelationship between the twobyevaluating the traditions of today's Meddah and storytelling. Forthisaim, threeMeddahs of today and twostorytellersareinterviewed. In the course of the interviews, today's Meddah and storytellers were compared with their ancestors to determine wheather they are the continiation of themor not. At the end of the studyunder the lights of lireraturere search and interviews, in tradiotional Turkish Folk Theather Meddah is the precursor of today's storytelling, therefore the roots of stand-up shows, single performances and storytelling of today belong to tradiotional Meddah.