Practical Evaluation of Barthes Opinion on Rules and Reasons of Beauty and Attractiveness of Theatre Costumes

Undoubtedly, attractiveness is the most important factor in an artwork. Since the “attractiveness” and “beauty” are of vague border and most of the philosophers deem that the attractiveness is the consequence of beauty, and as a result, we may say that the existence of each of the two factors is impossible without other one. Costumes in theater is one of the most important factors in performance, and always accompanies the actor, and on this basis, we may say that one of the important factors of creation of an attractive dramatic artwork (beautiful artwork) is wearing attractive (beautiful) costumes in that artwork, which may finally result in creation of a very attractive (beautiful) dramatic work. In an article entitled “Diseases of costume theatre” Roland Barthes who is an Aesthetician on costume and costume Design, has enumerated a few principles and rules (requirements) which might be considered as components for more attractiveness (more beautiful) design of costumes in a dramatic artwork. Method of capturing and gathering data and information in this research is a descriptive-analytical method, and the information is gathered out of the library references, reliablewebpages and field research. The question brought forward in this research is “how much the Barthes opinion would be effective in beautification and attractiveness of theater costumes ?” As we face with insufficient scientific and applied references and resources in this field, the importance of this research shall assist the costume designers and stage directors in finding the principles and standards for designing more attractive and beautiful costumes. In consideration of the investigations conducted about effectiveness of Barthes opinion about the costumes of two dramas of Ali Rafiei as case study, the most important achievement of this research is that the principles and rules intended by the Barthes about beauty and attractiveness of theatre costumes has been effective in practice, and may result in designing more attractive and beautiful costumes, and consequently, the performance of drama shall be more attractive.