The historical change of contemporary theatre in the globalisaton process

Theatre has been nourished from the structure, culture, and history of the society it was born in. For centuries, these nourishing sources have themselves transformed and shifted, leading new questions on theatre's function and aim. Influencing production process, finance and staging of theatre plays besides the storytelling elements, the reflections of globalization process as a transforming agent on theatre as an art tool and activity, is discussed in this research. Thus this research through analysis of selected sample aims to shed a light on newcoming and future theories and conceptualisations based on the preceding conceptions and theories that shaped contemporary theatre. Therefore, this research has adopted an analytic and descriptive approach toward the selected sample considered to represent contemporary theatre with various aspects of it, namely "The Balcony", "Curse of the Starving Class", "Andorra", "Bir Demet Tiyatro", "Tales from Hollywood", "Leaves of Glass", "Fire and Water" in order to IX give a enlightening picture of current transformations in the theatre and art world that could lead us to more profound, future reflections.