Fragmented Narratives in the Performance of Contemporary Iraqi Theater Actor

Abstract

Abstract

The current research's starting points are determined by studying fragmented narratives and investigating their components in the actor's performance, as a gift that departs from traditional patterns and moves towards different broadcasts that the actor adopts in his performance and goes beyond the narrative sequence of the performance's rhetorical given, as it is formed according to the performance's fragmentation and the scattering of its positions and the obstruction of its narrative and its hybridity in dispersed narrative mixtures that go beyond centrality and the confusion of time and space in favor of stimulating the recipient to investigate the performance and its potential in monitoring the hypothetical possibilities of narrative relationships. This is what the research problem and its goal focused on as a cognitive investigation that aims to identify fragmented narratives and their presence in the performance of the actor of the contemporary Iraqi theatrical show within the specified time period between the years (2013-2015 AD). The research then turned to the theoretical framework for examining the concept of fragmented narratives in its first section, while the second addressed fragmented narratives in global theatrical experiences. Both sections formed the basis for establishing the indicators that were applied to the research sample as a research tool that analytically investigated the approaches and applications in the intentionally selected sample, represented by the models (Reprimand), (Ahriman), and (Red Carpet). This paved the way for the emergence of the results as a reflection of the analysis.