Theatre and Performance Studies · Theatre and Ecology · Ecological Alienation · Ecological Consciousness · Dramatic Writing
Gamze Şentürk Tatar
- Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies
- Ecology Researcher, Theatre Specialist and Playwright
- 2025 Edwin Morgan Scholar
- Visiting Researcher, University of Sheffield
- Communications and Social Media Officer, International Theatre Research Association (UTAD)
Stage, Ecology and Word
Research on theatre, performance and ecology; academic publications, creative work and writing on the stage.
The stage is the oldest laboratory we have built for rethinking the world. Today, the planet itself is on that laboratory’s agenda.
Gamze Şentürk Tatar Assoc. Prof. Dr. · Theatre and Performance Studies
On Stage and Word
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gamze Şentürk Tatar is an academic whose research spans theatre, performance and ecology studies. Her work is shaped around contemporary theatre, theatre theory, dramaturgy, performance studies, British theatre, Turkish theatre and ecology. She approaches theatre not merely as a form of aesthetic expression but as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry in which social, cultural and political questions are debated.
About
New Book · 2026
Bir Kalbi Boyamak: Sevmek Şifadır (Painting a Heart: Love Is Healing)
Gamze Şentürk Tatar’s poetry collection Bir Kalbi Boyamak: Sevmek Şifadır (Painting a Heart: Love Is Healing, 2025–2026) was published by Yazıhane Yayınevi in July 2026.
Research Areas
Ecological Alienation
Ecological Consciousness
Theatre and Performance Studies
Playwriting and Dramaturgy
Intercultural Theatre
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News and Announcements
My new poetry collection is out: Bir Kalbi Boyamak: Sevmek Şifadır
My poetry collection Bir Kalbi Boyamak: Sevmek Şifadır (Painting a Heart: Love Is Healing) was published by Yazıhane Yayınevi in July 2026.
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Ecological Confrontations in Contemporary Theatre has been published
My book on ecological theatre, Çağdaş Tiyatroda Ekolojik Yüzleşmeler: Ekolojik Yabancılaşma ve Ekolojik Bilinç (Ecological Confrontations in Contemporary Theatre…
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Paper on contemporary British eco-theatre at TaPRA
I presented my paper “Staging the Earth: Ecological Alienation and Ecological Consciousness in Contemporary British Eco-Theatre” at the TaPRA Annual Conference, held at…
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Selected Publications
2026
Monograph
Çağdaş Tiyatroda Ekolojik Yüzleşmeler: Ekolojik Yabancılaşma ve Ekolojik Bilinç [Ecological Confrontations in Contemporary Theatre: Ecological Alienation and Ecological Consciousness]
Paradigma Akademi Yayınları, Çanakkale · 516 s. · ISBN 978-625-8674-54-5
Abstract (Turkish)
Çağdaş tiyatronun ekolojik krizlerle nasıl yüzleştiğini ekolojik yabancılaşma ve ekolojik bilinç kavramları üzerinden inceleyen monografi.
2025
Article
Kültürlerarası Etkileşim Bağlamında İngiltere’de Bir Türk Gölge Oyunu Gösterimi [A Turkish Shadow Play Performance in England in the Context of Intercultural Interaction]
Theatre Academy, 3(1), pp. 11–25
Abstract (Turkish)
Bu çalışma, Türk gölge oyununun İngiltere’de sergilenmesi üzerinden kültürlerarası iletişimi ve kültürel aktarımı ele almaktadır. Çalışma, geleneksel Türk tiyatrosunun farklı bir kültürel ortamda nasıl algılandığını ve kültürlerarası etkileşime nasıl katkı sağladığını incelemektedir.
2024
Article
Tiyatronun Rönesansı: Pandemi Döneminde Dijitalleşme ve Britanya Tiyatrosu [Renaissance of Theatre: Digitalisation and British Theatre in the Pandemic]
Yedi: Sanatta, Tasarımda ve Bilimde Hakemli Dergi (Special Issue on Digitalism in Art), pp. 35–54
Abstract (Turkish)
COVID-19 kapanmaları sırasında çevrim içi ortama taşınan Britanya tiyatrosunun teknolojiyi biçim, içerik ve uygulama düzeyinde nasıl kullandığını; bunun yeni seyirci kitlelerine ulaşma ve deneysel üretim açısından sonuçlarını ve teknoloji çağında tiyatro endüstrisinin geleceğini tartışır.
2024
Article
Swimming in the Deep Waters in Charlotte Jones’s Airswimming: Exploring Female Madness and Female Solidarity in a Psychiatric Hospital
Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Dergisi, pp. 161–180
Abstract (Turkish)
Ataerkil düzenin toplumsal cinsiyet normlarına uymayan kadınları akıl hastanelerine kapatarak susturmasını ve feminist oyun yazarlarının bu pratiğe yönelttiği eleştiriyi ele alır. Charlotte Jones’un Airswimming (1997) oyunundaki iki kadının yaşadığı baskıyı ve bu baskıya karşı kadın dayanışmasının gücünü inceler.
In Numbers
Research, writing and the stage
- Publications
- 43
- Article
- 15
- Books & Chapters
- 9
- Blog Posts
- 7
Blog
Latest Posts
Ecological Theatre
The Climate Crisis on Stage: What Does Ecological Theatre Tell Us?
The climate crisis is no longer only the subject of scientific reports but of the stage as well. Ecological theatre tries to move humans…
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Contemporary British Theatre
When the Curtain Fell, the Screen Lit Up: The Pandemic and Digital Theatre
When theatres closed in 2020, theatre did not disappear; it moved to screens. But is liveness possible without sharing the same space?
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Theatre Theory
Theatre’s Forgotten Sense: Smell
We watch and listen to theatre. But what if we smelled it? On the stage’s oldest yet least discussed sense.
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