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Abstract

SUMMARY Human civilization has emerged and developed as play` within the play. Play, which existed before culture, is an act that accompanied and defined culture from its beginning to the present era. Play is a free activity placed outside of daily life, an imaginary and fictional experience, yet which the player indulges in with joy and pleasure. It is free as concepts like materialistic benefit. It is performed in an organized manner, within a specified limited time and space, following certain rules. To discover one's self is a vital necessity which appears during the period of creativity. During the play, we get to know ourselves and by having our mind freed we start to question the pressures exerted by life and social order. We find out the child within ourselves with joy and pleasure. We reach the `childish` enthusiasm, creativity and the oppurtunity of being `itself`. The man in play actually drawing the picture of happiness. The plays of Turkish playwrights, who had chosen the concept of play as a theme. Show varieties according to ideological and sentimental conditions and the lifestyles of the periods at which were written in. The lively and exciting structure of the play has evolved into a state of sadness as the result of modern man's anxiety, alienation and existential troubles. In 166today's understanding, modern man is no longer playing. The oppression of the modem longing for benefit has erodicated the excitement, self-esteem, creativity, desire to go back to the inner `child` in man. All created by the fleeling of play. With the collopse of the world of play, the culture which has emerged and developed in unity with the concept of play, now enters a phase of decline and corruption. Hope lies in the belief of those who love to play again, and are convinced that they can charge the flow of history in this way. 167