The Variants of Place and the Narrative of the Body in the Performance of the Iraqi Theatrical Actor

ABSTRACT The place is one of the important artistic elements in achieving the form and type of expression between the actor and the recipient, as the actor’s techniques change to highlight movement forms commensurate with the data of the theatrical performance location, so the actor’s body works to communicate and communicate through movements, gestures and signals of the face, arms and feet, and all of these rhetorical elements are affected by space And the shape and size of the place of performance, for this reason, the need for this study arose. The research included an introduction and a theoretical framework of two sections, the first: the concept of narration and its preoccupations in the place, the second topic: physical expression and its narrative significance in different places. As for the research procedures, the researcher adopted the intentional sample, and then the results Research and conclusions.