The play "The Sun Stone, or the Phoenix" as an example of the contemporary Palestinian theater

Abstract

The  prerequisites  for  writing  the  article were the peculiarities of the existence and development of  theater  in  the  Arab  world  in  general  and  in  Palestine in particular. The purpose of the study is to identify the main problems, first of all, the scenography of the region and  identify  possible  vectors  for  solving  problems.  The review  of  the  situation  uses  methods  of  summarizing historical  data  on  the  recent  history  of  the  creation  of theater  companies  in  the  region  and  their  development on  the  example  of  the  existence  of  the  theater  “Days  of Theater” in the Gaza Strip (Palestine). The article analyzes the production of the play based on the traditional Arabic poetry “The Sun Stone, or the Phoenix” by the troupe of the  foundation.  The  main  modern  features  of  the  young Palestinian  theater  and  scenography  are  revealed.  The results and main conclusions mark the significance of the semantic image of the performance through the analysis of its individual parts. The set design, color structure, and musical  accompaniment  are  also  analyzed.  This  region very  rarely  falls  into  the  area  of  scientific  interest  of researchers  due  to  the  historical,  political  and  religious features of development. Therefore, any new aspect of the consideration of the problem is important and contributes to the further disclosure of the peculiarities of the culture of this region.