Until the mid -nineteenth century, the Arab culture did not know the art of theater, which was prevalent in Europe, which it inherited from the stage of pagan myths in the time of ancient Greek civilization, then the religious theater in Christian covenants, and a lot of development took place during the European renaissance and enlightenment until it became intense art Mud, while the Arab theater faced many problems and difficulties that slowed its career and crystallized as an independent art; Some considered it an intruder on Arab culture and a Western heresy targeting oriental values ​​and morals, as well as the "prose theater" strong competition from the "lyrical theater" that the audience strongly tended to at the beginning, and to satisfy this audience often the language of the plays presented was colloquial colloquially dominated by vulgarity.