Paydos

Paydos (Turkish for Feierabend is) a comedy of Turkish-speaking poet Cevat Fehmi Başkut from 1948. It is regarded as the first international stage success of the Turkish theater.

The three-act play about the elementary school teacher Murtaza Bey, who becomes a merchant for reasons of love because his lover should only be married in merchant circles, had its world premiere in 1948 at Şehir Tiyatrolari from Istanbul . The present play, which is effective on the stage, has also been filmed several times: in 1954 by Sami Ayanoglu and in 1968 and 2004 by Ülkü Erakalin .

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1. ^ Gero von Wilpert (Ed.): Lexicon of world literature. Foreign-language authors, Kröner 2004, p. 162
2. ↑ Kindler's Neues Literatur Lexikon 1989, p. 292