A STUDY ON THE FUNDAMENTAL CONDITION OF "THEATER GOING" WITH TIME GEOGRAPHY

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the motivation and the fundamental condition "theater going". The method of this study is takings interviews with their on motivations, the experiences in their lives and the activity on the day of going theater. Time geography is adopted for the analysis. The findings are as follows 1) Causes of theater going are greatly influenced by regional living environment and characteristics of audiences. Results are dependent on the characteristics of audiences. 2) Theater going is motivated by changing of living environment. that is sometimes decreeing theater going, especially in women when they marry or have children. 3) It is found that time geography is effective to understand the correlation between living environment and the site of facilities for performing arts.