Popular Song in Omani Theatre: Connotations and Symbols

Abstract

Abstract

 The Omani theater was able to be a link between the past, present, heritage and modern, and its workers presented many successful experiences that received awards and critical praise in the symbolic degrees of awareness of this linkage, employment and deep reading of connotations embodied with all professionalism and success on local and regional theaters.

The research discusses the actual contents and efforts made by Omani authors and directors and the results that the Omani theater was able to achieve during the past two decades and to bring them to the level of presentation and presentation at the local intellectual and artistic level, and the presence recorded at the external level, especially in theatrical play and dramatic employment of the popular song, whether at the level of text or purpose, as the tools and methods of this employment varied, to the point that the popular song turned into one of the most important vocabulary of the Omani theatrical experience because it is characterized by a collective character, and performance The collective of the most prominent vocabulary of the Omani heritage for this is employing the Omani folk song in the theater in a tangible way behind the popular song a continuous presence and varying from one work to another, especially in the theatrical works of the current study sample, which is (package - Hamran eyes - Bousalama - Samhri - Burqa) and represent the burqa the main model of research.