Analyzing the method of adaptation of religious texts in five plays for children and teenagers published in the 80s and 90s based on Linda Seger's model of adaptation

This research aims to investigate the method of adaptation in several children's and teenagers' plays which were written by adapting religious texts and published in the 80s and 90s. In this research, five plays were selected from prominent writers in the field of children and adolescents, which are: "Dawood's Song" by "Manochehar Akbarlou", "Animal Wrestling" by "Dawood Kianian", "Do Good and Be with God" by "Hasan Dolatabadi", "For Pearls" by "Hossein Fadaei Hossein" and "Saving the Deer" by "Amir Mashhadi Abbas".Then, by studying and explaining the adaptation theory of Linda Seger, we extracted a model from it to analayze a adapted text from a dramatic point of view, and then we tried to use it to analyze the selected plays in order to understand the strengths, shortcomings, inadequacies and gaps of selected playsThis research is practical in terms of purpose and the theoretical studies of this research have been collected in a library form through articles, books, magazines and reliable websites.Finally, with the conducted investigations, it can be concluded that in these five plays, which were among the prominent works of children and teenagers with the approach of adapting religious texts, the main weakness is in creating the story and advancing the axis of direction, and in most of them, the goal of the main character It is not dramatically strong and lacks tension, rising stakes, and a turning point.