Analysis of The Main Effects of Couple Relationships in The Past Decade Plays of Iran (2001-2011)

The present article attempts to study the main effects of couple relationships in dramatic literature of the recent decade in Iran . This is a descriptive – analytical study. The contents of this research include family and theater studies. In this regard, we have selected a number of important dramas of this period and analyzed and compared them, using a conceptual framework farmed mainly based on the theories of Giddens, McCarthy and Edwards as well as dramatic elements consist of characters, dialogue, conflict, mise-en-scene and theme. Based on the conceptual factors in family relationships defined in this study as anomalous relations, drama elements reflect the couple relationships during performance. The findings of this study reveal that in the 1980s most of the reflected couple relationships have been concentrated on social deviance (family intervention, domestic violence, infidelity, hidden relations, and emotional separation). Playwrights have depicted the community face and used the couple’ relations as a symbol of individuals’ relations and as a model of macro-social relations.