POLITICAL MEDIA IN THE CONTEMPORRY Iraqi Theatrical Text

Abstract

The current investigation attempts to show the political presence in the Iraqi theatrical text is the most prominent and important presence in determining the nature of the suffering that the society has accompanied in theatrical artistic ways in which the playwright played an important role in reversing the political reality theatrically in order to spread awareness and reveal the secrets of politics and its influence on the Iraqi thought. So, the Iraqi theatrical text has a creative stand in crystallizing a political media that is commensurate with the privacy of the Iraqi society. Accordingly, it is concluded that political media is the engine of the political process. Moreover,  literary genres, especially rhetoric, were of interest in the Iraqi theatrical textual employment. The Iraqi theatrical text treated the political situation with unconventional methods in order to smoothly convey its political media message to ensure its reach to the addressee. In the content of his theatrical texts, the Iraqi playwright resorted to the theory of media freedom in a more comprehensive way because it suits his ambitions and allows him freedom of expression. The Iraqi theatrical text, through the political media, chronicled the political history of Iraq.  Political media is consistent in the theatrical text according to many theories, including the theory of power, the theory of freedom, and the theory of democracy. Political propaganda and its effective role in favor of the authority emerged in the theatrical text to polish the image of the ruler as a political marketing art. Finally, it is indicated that the role of misleading public opinion and concealing the facts was manifested by concealing the bad role of the ruler and giving a good illusory role intended to mislead the true image of the ruler, by misleading the people to persuade them to wage war, while the role of misinformation was in concealing the political crime.