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Vasıf Öngören who is one of the remarkable names of modern Turkish theatre with his identities as playwright, actor and theatre director, plays an important role in meeting of Turkish theatregoer and epic theatre model both by putting Brecht’s various plays on stage and also writing epic theatre-style plays. Asiye Nasıl Kurtulur which was written between 1966 and 1968, and first staged at Ankara Birliği Stage in 1969-70 season, is a work that Brecht’s method has been applied successfully both in content and form. In this paper, Asiye Nasıl Kurtulur is intended to analyse in the context of the characteristics of epic theatre. Before reviewing, Bertolt Brecht’s epic theatre model is focused on and the reflections of this theory on twentieth century Turkish theatre are briefly dealed. Later, the play is evaluated both in content and form, taking into consideration the characteristics of epic theatre.

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Bertolt Brecht, Epic Theatre, Vasıf Öngören, Asiye Nasıl Kurtulur.
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