Tennessee Williams'ın "Sırça Kümes" Oyununun Tarihsel Bağlamda Blues Müziğin Gelişimi ile Bağdaştırılması ve Bir Reji Uygulaması

Abstract

In this master’s thesis, the stage direction of the play “The Glass Menagerie”, written in 1944 by the American author Tennessee Williams, who draws attention with the psychological depth of his characters and the poetry of his writing language, has been implemented. The autobiographical features of the play were chosen as the basis of this application. Before the application, the political, economic and social situation of the period had been researched. Mechanization and the mass production, which started with the Industrial Revolution and then became widespread with the First World War, caused changes in the social structure. Some states and cities in the United States have become industrialized and life there has undergone a great transformation. However, the United States of America, which provided various aid to European states whose economies were in collapse after the First World War, soon found itself faced with a great crisis. This crisis, called the 1929 crisis or the Great Depression, became the source of new social problems. United States of America in the 1930s witnessed social outrages such as unemployment, hunger, theft and suicide. This insecure economic environment in the world led to the Second World War. “The Glass Menagerie” is an autobiographical work that tells about these years. In the late 1930s, St. Louis is one of the industrialized cities of the United States. The Williams family, living in St. Louis, is barely making ends meet. Tom Wingfield, who provides the only sufficient source of income for the family, wants to get rid of his job at the shoe factory where he works and become a traveling poet, while at the same time he spends his nights at the cinema to combat his mother's pressures. Mother Amanda Wingfield is looking for various solutions for her daughter Laura, who cannot be a part of social life due to her lameless, and for the financial gap that will be created if her son Tom leaves them. Before working with undergraduate students on the stage direction application, a detailed text analysis and dramaturgy study of the play has been carried out. The author's life is one of the main sources used at this point. The author's experiences during the process of writing the play, his family relationships, the notes and diaries in which he stated what he wanted to express in the play, has been examined in detail. In the play, songs by Muddy Waters, one of the important representatives of Blues music, have been used to accompany the characters.