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This study searches for an answer to the question “why the technique of play within play was applied for” in Memet Baydur’s play called Limon. For this purpose, first of all, the socio-political background of the period in which the play was written will be glanced at. Afterwards, the reasons of the use of play within play technique will be revealed. Thanks to this technique the roles of the people change in the play; and a new mise an scene is passed over/stepped in whenever the door is knocked down. The only person whose identity and role do not change among the others is Berfinaz. Owing to this technique in the play, in which basically a group of intellectuals lost themselves in tattling in order to get rid of the crisis they fell in, a playful atmosphere appears and this playfulness contrasting with the seriousness of that period reduces the effect of it albeit a bit. Besides this, it is sensed that this technique was preferred as a way to escape from the oppression and prohibitions of the 1980s when the effects of the coup d’état predominated the period.