Amerikan tiyatrosunda tiyatro ve politika ilişkisi

This study claims that certain radical dramatic texts have ideological relations with the audience and the historical period with which the text concerns itself, that they become a means of ideological and cultural involvement, and therefore have possible subversive social and political effects. The interactions of politics and dramatic theatre will be examined with a historical-materialist method which considers the historical/political context of the texts with their connections to theories of theatre and literature. The main question directing the analysis of the theatrical language of dramatic texts is: How do these dramatic texts constitute a subversive action, a style uncontaminated by the performative aspects of everyday life and therefore by dominant codes and systems of representation? With the purpose to search for an answer to this question the study claims that theatrical language can be subversive in the face of dominant ideology; and therefore, may be an active component of social change. To prove this claim, the research offers a reading of selected plays through the model of semiotics developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.