A master's thesis at the College of Fine Arts, University of Basrah, examined visual formats and the multiplicity of meaning production in contemporary theatrical performance. The light of the semantic transformations of its elements as well as the aesthetic formations that move through the artistic content of the form.
The thesis discussed several concepts, including formal structures as a philosophical concept and as an expressive structure, technical and functional concepts of formal and artistic forms, and the multiplicity of meaning production. The thesis aims to shed light on the concept of pictorial formats and reveal their nature and spaces as an expressive means of the contents of theatrical performance according to intellectual, cultural, social and political levels.
The thesis concluded that the formats have intentional contents and meanings that are formed according to the director’s visions and his intellectual and social references, and that their presence in the theatrical performance is determined through his function and the meanings he carries, not from his abstract existence.