The Dramatic Structure in the Theatre of Absurd in Iraqi Artist

Abstract

This research deals with the theatre of the absurd, multiple artistic features are used to express tragic themes in a comic form.  The features include anti-character, anti-language, anti-drama, and anti-plot. The research problem centers on the following question: what is one of the most important features of the drama of the absurd in the text of an Iraqi playwright Taha Salim’s play? The importance of the research becomes clear as it represents a study of some Iraqi theatrical achievements with their modern methods and approaches especially the drama of the absurd, this is in addition to describing it as a cognitive achievement that benefits students and critics of theatrical art, in addition to deriving a basic goal which is to reveal the features of the drama of the absurd in the plays of Taha Salem. Its limits to Iraqi theatrical texts by the writer Taha Salem, for the period from 1965 to 1970, furthermore the studying the artistic development of the drama of the absurd in the Arabic world after identifying the factors for the emergence of the drama of the absurd, presenting the features and elements of the drama of absurd.  In the Iraqi theatrical text and a review of its most prominent pioneers. Research procedures and sample analysis are included in addition to the research community, its sample, its tools, and methods.