Interactive reception of the protest theatrical performance - the play Eight Witnesses from My Country by Choice

Abstract

The protest theatrical performance seeks to stimulate the imagination of the recipient by producing multiple interpretive readings of the theatrical performance speech, which come in an intentional way for the purpose of the recipient interacting with the events of the theatrical performance and elevating it to the level of rejection and protest and achieving multiple goals at the intellectual, social and political levels, and producing a protest theatrical speech that interacts and participates in Activate it receiver.

            The research included four chapters: The first chapter was concerned with the methodological framework of the research, and the research problem centered on the following question: How was the director able to provoke the audience to interact with the protest theatrical performance?

           While the importance of the research and the need for it became clear as it sheds light on an important detail of the theatrical process, which is the effectiveness of reception in theatre, as well as being a cognitive achievement that benefits students And researchers in the field of theatrical directing, in addition to deriving a basic goal, which is to identify the effectiveness of the reception of the protest theatrical show. As for its limits, it was limited to the theatrical performances that were presented at the Theater of the Cultural Center in Basra in (2018). The chapter concluded by defining the most important terms that were mentioned in the title of the research. .

        The second chapter was concerned with the theoretical framework and contained two sections. The first section was concerned with the interaction of reception in the theatrical performance, while the second section was concerned with studying protest theatre’s origins and development. The research emerged from the theoretical framework with the indicators that it used as a tool for analyzing samples.

         As for the third chapter, it included (research procedures), as it included the research community, which included the research sample, through which the sample represented by the protest theatrical performances, eight witnesses from my country, was analyzed.

The fourth chapter contained the research results reached by the researcher, a presentation of the conclusions, and a list of sources.