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This essay looks at the Armenian stereotype in late Ottoman popular performances from the perspective offered by Carlson. By Ottoman popular performances, I am referring to Meddah (storyteller), Karagöz (shadow play), and Ortaoyunu (middle show). Meddahs were professional storytellers performing in public spaces, such as coffeehouses. Karagöz is the name of the Ottoman/Turkish shadow theatre. These plays feature two principal characters, Karagöz and Hacivat. The characters and spaces are represented with two-dimensional figures made of camel skin, called tasvir, which are reflected on a white screen before a light source. The puppeteer in Karagöz is called a hayali. Ortaoyunu, "'entertainment staged in the middle place' … around which the spectators form a circle," is based on two principal characters parallel to those in Karagöz and likened to commedia dell'arte.