توظيف التراث الشعبي المحلي في مسرح المرأة السعودية

الملخص EN

Objectives: The studies that tackles Saudi women’s theater with an independent study are scarce.

At its best, Saudi women’s theater often is taught combined with the Saudi man’s production in this field.

This study approximates the Saudi women theater to discuss the patterns of local folklore that the Saudi woman uses in her theater and the mechanisms that she uses to employ this heritage.

The study includes preface three sections and conclusion.

Methods: This study approaches women’s theatrical production by using the descriptive approach that contributes to reading and analyzing plays written by Saudi women to determine the patterns of local folklore that the Saudi female writer employs in her theater and the goals she wants to achieve from this employment.

The plays under study are: (Naqid) and (The Will) by Hamad al- Shamlani, (The Exiles) by Abeer Al-Baz, (A Sincere Love) by Maryam Al-Harthy, (Mother’s Axe) by Malhah Abdullah and (Divorce) by Huda Al-Rashid.

Results: This study revealed the local folklore patterns used by the Saudi female writer, namely: the local singing and popular poetry, the local folk tale, and the local folk proverb.

It also demonstrated the functions of each pattern of local Saudi folklore that were included in Saudi women’s theater.

Conclusion: The study concludes that the local folklore was present in the Saudi women’s theater.

This recruitment was not limited to a specific writer but instead included a group of female writers, and it came to achieve different functions in the theatrical script.