Analyzing costume obtaining process in private theatres

The State Theatre is responsible for theatre that is one of performing arts in Turkey. There are also other active theatres in Turkey that are called private theatres. These theatres belong to certain persons, they have special artistic purposes and they deal with these purposes with their own budget. They can also be defined as little producing units depending on sharing the same labour.When working conditions of these private theatres are analyzed, it is understood that these theatres try to survive with their own budget and they lack some technical opportunities. Aimed result of this research is to analyze costume obtaining process of these theatres and to be able to help them with certain suggestions that will limit some problems they particularly face.Material of the research consists of certain data that is gathered with the help of surveys from different private theatres all around Turkey and other sources about this case. The research is a screening model. That is why, just after consulting some experts about the case, a survey as a measurement vehicle is created in order to determine costume obtaining process, people in charge, costume preparing process, costume producing process, costumes after usage, required financial sources, etc.The survey is applied on 69 private theatres out of theatres of Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism (2010-2011). In order to determine validity/ reliability of the co-efficient of the measured variant, certain test results of Cronbach Alfa (?) are controlled, and validity and reliability (? = 0,648) of 43 questions of the survey are found valid.The obtained data is analyzed with the help of SPSS software. This research, which is done in order to analyze costume obtaining process in the private theatres, gives out data which is gathered through estimating frequency and percentile. Numeric and percentage degree of the data are given out in cross tables in accordance with their working period.According to the obtained data, the private theatres are in search of sponsor in order to have financial support because of the problems they face. Providing process in costume producing, giving no adequate time for costume preparing process, lacking technical needs in designing process cause these problems. With the result of the survey, it is realized that designers working in the private theatres are not able to put forth products of high-quality because of the problems they face.