March 20, 2011

A Mavi Boncuk Compendium | Karagoz

Maybe Karagoz Shadow Play was not Turkish. Maybe it was an amalgam of major borrowings of an empire that provided an outlet for bringing the many ethnicities together as a major method of venting healthy(?) racism. Maybe. So please provide some slack for Greeks. Theirs can be "the stock of stock of rabbit stock" just like the famous Hodja story. But, it is ok. Let's not grab everything.

Mavi Boncuk |
Oct 26, 2004
There are several versions of how Karagoz became the central figure of the plays. Evliya Chelebi, the famous 17th centruy Ottoman traveler and writer, devotes considerable space to Karagoz and his partner, Hacivat in his writings. ...
Oct 26, 2004
Mavi Boncuk | The Parts of the Karagoz Play. I. The Prolugue. Before the play begins, a decorative scene (a house, a plant or a bouquet of flowers) is put on the screen. As the prologue begins, this scene is slowly removed from the ...
Mar 01, 2008
There is an extinct type of Karagöz play, known as 'Toramanlı Karagöz' or 'Zekerli Karagöz', in which Karagöz has a phallus,[1] Hacivat is ashamed, and female characters are naked. This type of play usually included slang and swearwords ...
Sep 21, 2008
The Turkish Cultural Foundation is pleased to announce the release of “Traditional Turkish Shadow Theater:Karagöz”, a one of a kind compilation of 20 classic Karagöz plays in a 5 DVD set. The Karagoz film project is part of the ...
Mar 01, 2008
Mavi Boncuk | Karagöz Curtain Poem, as translated by Andreas Tietze (1914-2003) To the eye of the uninitiated this curtain produces [only] images But to him who knows the signs, symbols of the truth. Sheikh Kushteri has founded this ...
Dec 01, 2005
Karagoz sometimes tries to get him to hear by speaking the words into his cupped hands and throwing them up to his ear. This method failing, a ladder is brought and Karagoz climbs up it to shout in Baba Himmet's ear. ...
Jan 05, 2005
Pisekar and Kavuklu, the endmen—who much resemble Hacivat and Karagoz in shadow theatre proceed to a muhavere (dialogue), a battle of wits in which Kavuklu tells a farfetched story which he tries to make the audience believe. ...
Jun 12, 2004
The Turkish "Karagoz Oyunu / Shadow Show" is a show, a type of spectacle of which the source is "Shamanism", a religious belief of Central Asian Turkish Nations during the centuries of 5-6 BC which was formed as seen today in Asia Minor ...
Apr 02, 2006
What if we have no more Karagoz and Hacivat, the shadow play critics of daily morals, long live TV. Mavi Boncuk Watch the Video Clip Karagümrük Yanıyor by Uğur Arslan Karagümrük yanıyor Karagümrük yanıyor polis beni arıyor ...
Jan 05, 2005
... according to the audiance's reactions or the puppeteer's or actor's decision, without upsetting the general course of the action. Surviving titles and scenery show resemblances and close parallels between Karagoz and Ortaoyunu plots.
Mar 01, 2008
The scene (called Karagoz Perde) is occupied by his cottage in the left, and the Sultan's Palace (Sarayi) on the far right. Because of his poverty, Karagiozis uses mischievous and crude ways to find money and feed his family. ...

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