Bahar Karlıdağ

regional managing editor

b.karlidag@thetheatretimes.com

Bahar Karlıdağ is an adjunct professor of theatre and literature in Yeditepe and Isik Universities in Istanbul, Turkey. She has a Ph.D. from the School of Drama, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. She is also a Fulbright Visiting Research Program alumna (2012-13). Her research concentrates on the historical representation of the radical left in English and American theatre and performance, and contemporary Labor activism in Turkey. Her dissertation reclaims/retrofits the Labor cause manifest in Workers’ Theatre Movement as the interpretive frame in appreciating Joan Littlewood’s theatrical style. She has presented at ASTR and IFTR conferences’ working groups, and taught courses on civilization history, English literature and drama at various levels in universities; has a book project in progress, revising her dissertation for popular readership in Turkey, a forthcoming contribution to IFTR Political Performances Working Group Anthology, along with a peer-reviewed essay, a book translation and several theatre reviews.

Playing Nazim Hikmet, Always Fresh And Relevant

Posted by Bahar Karlıdağ | 19th Aug 2018 | Essay, Playwriting, Turkey

Turkish poet, playwright, and novelist Nazim Hikmet spent a life in exile condemning fascism, its...

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