Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
CRITICAL STAGES = SCENES CRITIQUES, sa.27, ss.1-10, 2023 (Scopus)
Duygu Dalyanoğlu is one of Turkey’s most critical young voices in theatre and performance. She has a BA. degree in Political Science, Boğaziçi University, and a MA. degree in Cultural Studies with her M.A. thesis is entitled “Melancholia and Survival: Playwriting in Armenian Diaspora.” She was awarded Best Playwright of the Year by the Turkish Theatre Critics Awards and Üstün Akmen Theatre Awards, 2017-18, for her play Zabel, co-written with Aysel Yıldırım. In 2020, Duygu Dalyanoğlu founded the K’nın Sesi (Voice of K) audio-drama podcast channel; at the present time, she is pursuing a Ph.D. degree, Kadir Has University, in Gender Studies, specializing in the relationship between playwriting and gender.
When I met Duygu in Istanbul in December 2022, we had an in-depth discussion on art, theatre and literature, focusing on her experience as both a performer and a playwright who creates political and particularly feminist theatre in Turkey. We continued our conversations during the following months through e-mail exchanges and phone conversations, in both Turkish and English. Below is an excerpt from our many exchanges, prepared especially for circulation in Critical Stages.