Open Science Journal – August 2017 1 RESEARCH ARTICLE Reception of the children’s theater Fehime Nihal Kuyumcu* Istanbul University, Turkey *Corresponding Author: F. Nihal Kuyumcu: nihal.kuyumcu@istanbul.edu.tr Abstract Keywords: Theatre for children, Reception, Iser, Piaget Introduction Reception aesthetics or theory (Rezeptionsasthetik) is a name given to various theories which study reader's function corresponding with the meaning and the interpretation of literary works. After the 1960s, the reception theory is a theory that the character connected with time or place was kept dark and this theory gives the reader responsibility for revealing various points. (Moran:1994:221) To Citation : Fehime Nihal Kuyumcu (2017) Reception of the children’s theater Open Science Journal 2(3). Received: 28 th July 2017 Accepted: 8 th August 2017 Published: 15 th August 2017 Copyright: © 2016 This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work. Competing Interests: The author have declared that no competing interests exists. Reception theory or aesthetics is the name which takes part in the literary world, gives reader responsibility as well as an author about meaning or interpretation of author's works and analyze reader's function in this field. It's a matter of debate or study, who give a meaning to the work. When does the work have a meaning? Who constitutes the meaning? Reader or author? In the context of our subject, in what way does the reception process realize for theater audience and children's theater audience? Is there a difference between adult theater and children's theater? The subject of this study is to answer this question "In what way does the reception of thechildren's theater audience group realize among the children 4 aged and older in our country? " in the light of the cognitive development theory of Piaget and the reception aesthetics of W. Iserand we grounded the observations that were made during the children's plays and the interviews made after the play.