Theater and it's future during transition from verbalsociety to visual soci̇ety

The heading for this thesis which "Theater And It's Future During Transition From The Verbal Society To Visual Society" consists of 3 chapter. It has been examined changes of individual and social thinking and communiation styles and its tools in the history of transition from verbal tradition to virtual culture. In this context, it has been inverstigated how art get affected by the written culture after its being part to human history. Although the visual thinking form existed before the speech and verbal tradition, it is not used as a direct communication form , the need of societies for language and the transformation of the arts in this direction have been discussed. In the second chapter has been studied how the theater has affected that the language which has its insufficiency and limitations as a way of communication and restrictrions on art production and society that adapts to visual culture. At this stage, there are examples of how theater has benefited from advertising strategies and images. In the third and final section has been analyzed with examples starting from the naive arts, the beginning of the postdramatic, the development phase and the present, the transformation stages of visuality in the theater form modernism to postmodernism. In this section, some results have been concluded by literatüre review tha t on which grounds are intersected the stage language and formalism of theater and the perception strategies of advertising and media.