His doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Basra examined the artistic and technical presence of the marionette in the performance of the Iraqi theater actor.
The thesis presented by researcher Wissam Khader Moussa aims to establish the marionette as a cognitive achievement that highlights the study of artistic and technical presence in the performance of a theater actor because it establishes a theatrical image in which he is an active element in the formulation, form and content of the event.
The thesis included an explanation of the marionette theme, where the actor invests in his performance the energies of expression at various levels to produce readable signs within the context of communication and at the same time to a marionette body that replaces him in the process of expressing the character's content.
The thesis concluded that the artistic and technical presence of the actor and the marionette establishes a performing system of a visual associative nature that depicts reality and determines its parameters and dimensions, so the process of visual and auditory creation seems to be a means of communication through the active presence in the performance space.
Media division of the Faculty of Fine Arts