Importance of the Objects in Transforming Narrative Space into Dramatic Space of Akbar Radi's Plays (1980-1990)

This Research paper aims to explore narrative functions of the objects in the selected plays of Akbar Radi, the famous Iranian playwright, during 1980s. Describing narrative as the sequence of incidents, and accordingly a sort of emphasizing on temporality, the significance of space is frequently neglected in narratological studies. Narrative space yet is remarkably portrayed in drama in such way that the necessity of constituting a drama is mapping a certain and concrete place. Following the tradition of storytelling and minstrelsy, developing space in Iranian vernacular drama often has a verbal and non-pictorial form. Akbar Radi, however, depicts a pictorial, exact and objective space in his plays, and conducts dramatic elements such as character, action or setting in a strong connection with space. In his works, performer's body is totally interconnected to spatial positions or its surrounded objects; and even the emotion of character is personified by means of spatial components. This research first examines the Space in narratology, then it develops this description into drama studies and finally it will try to examine the roles of objects in the selected plays of Akbar Radi.