SCENOGRAPHY OF THE PLACE AND ITS OCCUPATION IN CHILDREN'S THEATER PERFORMANCES

Abstract

The child receives information through live action and emotionally with what is presented to him on stage in terms of cases affecting his daily life, activities and desires that have educational implications. Those interested in the theatrical show directed at the child seek to instill positive concepts and work to change or consolidate his concepts and the constancy of acquired social values and habits. Therefore, the visual formats play their role in the space of the child's theater, as they perform their function in two ways, the first is towards the visual formats and the mechanism of their educational operation, and the second is the mechanism of functioning and its relationship to the scenography of the child's theater, and from the foregoing, the researcher establishes the problem of her research through the following question: What is scenography of the place and its occupation in children's theater performances? The current research aims to identify the scenography of the place and its preoccupations in children's theater performances. The researcher counted the research community, which consisted of the theatrical performances that were presented at the Emirates Festival for Children's Theater - Sharjah National Theatre, and for the period (2012- 2019), as the theatrical performances amounted to (50) fifty theatrical performances. The researcher chose one sample of theatrical performances from the festivals. For the period from (2012-2019) from her original research community in a stratified manner and by (10%) of the research community amounting to (fifty) theatrical performances, the researcher adopted the (descriptive) approach in analyzing the research samples to reach the most important results: 1- The sample presentations participated in simplicity and clarity in the dialogue and were consistent with the taste of the recipient (the child). 2- The directorial vision worked in building the theatrical performance for the child, as well as music, songs and influences played a major role in activating the theatrical performance at the beginning of the performance in the sample and was an influential factor and harmonized with the events of the play in an enjoyable and dazzling manner.