Scene Transformations Over Time in Children's Theater Texts

Abstract

The research includes a study of (scenic transformations over time in children’s theater texts) and it included four chapters. The first chapter was concerned with explaining the problem of the research, its importance and need for it, the goal and limits of the research, and defining the most important terms contained in it. The research objective dealt with (identifying scenic transformations over time in... Children's theater texts.The second chapter was concerned with the theoretical framework, as the theoretical framework included two sections. The first section was the concept of time in children’s theater texts. The second section was about scenic transformations over time. The third section included research procedures, the research community, the research sample, the research tool, the research methodology, and analysis. The research sample of (3) is a model, while the fourth chapter included the research results and conclusions, and among the results reached by the researcher:

1. The character of the narrator formed an active presence in most of the theatrical texts presented to children in terms of his influence on the course of the dramatic action, clarifying the image of the conflict, and reducing the element of time by authorizing his presentation of events that may take a long time in several lines.
2. The imagined time and the dream time give the recipient (the child) new knowledge in ways of thinking and adopting cognitive values and concepts and urges him to develop himself like the experiences that Anis went through in the text of Anis’ Journey. In this text, the image of the dream is represented by the image that transforms time from reality to imagination.

Through The Results, The Researcher Also Reached A Number Of Conclusions, Including

1. The time of receiving the theatrical text is a linear sequential time, even if it includes a circular structure or the image of a dream, imagination, or anticipating the future and recalling the past.
2. It creates the illusion of time in the theatrical text through its superior ability to reduce, condense, and recede in order to allow its structure to establish its overall unity.