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This study examined the main factors of the official Jordanian theatre’s decline, starting from the late 1970’s till the present, through the examination of a number of play productions that were presented by the official Jordanian theatre and directed by the active Jordanian directors, over the period involved. The study delineated and discussed seven detrimental factors, which contributed to this decline. These factors are: (1) abandoning Realism and Naturalism theatrical styles by wrongly adopting anti-Realism theatrical styles, and doing away with some of the logic of aesthetics, (2) eliminating the whole Jordanian theatrical movement to a 2-week theatre festival yearly, (3) the uncomplimentary choice of plays and ignoring the world’s classics, (4) the quality of education at the Yarmook University’s Drama Department, (5) politicians in charge of the Jordanian theatre, not theatre artists, (6) the lack of unbiased scientific theatre criticism, and (7) the lack of educational theatres in Jordan’s universities. The study concluded that working to fix and enhance each one of these factors ought to take the Jordanian theatre to higher grounds.

Past Two Decades , Jordanian Theatre’sDecline

2007

مجله جامعه دمشق -للاداب و العلوم الانسانيه

مجله جامعه دمشق -للاداب و العلوم الانسانيه