Performing dramaturgy of director as a theatrical director : In terms of researching practice and documentation on the creative quadrilogy on Crime and Punishment

'연극의 작가'로서 연출가의 드라마투르그적 수행 - <죄와벌> 4부작 창작에 관한 '리서치적 실천'과 기록

This research focuses on 'dramaturgical' performance among all the acts of a director who constructs an artistic structure. This is, specifically, the dramaturgical acts that a director comes to perform in the process of dramatizing a novel. This paper aims to suggest a new kind of approach for productive interaction between drama theory and practice, not only by documenting the process of creation but also by moulding theoretical basis on acts of a director. As you all know, creative acts in practice so far have rarely been considered as subject and purpose of academic study. Even some lucky plays and directors had to settle for fragmentary review. That's mainly because Korean theatrical circles confine the way of recording the whole process of drama in practice only to a piecemeal review of performance. As a result, there have been very few cases of observing comtemporary plays under the historical background of drama. In this regard, this paper desires to raise a question, 'is productive interaction between drama theory and creative practice possible?' and to find the answer. If what is described in this paper can have worth beyond a mere record of creative acts, it may establish theoretical grounds on interpreting the play stage of this era by reading, in the contexts of drama history, a director's dramaturgical performing acts to dramatize a novel. The researcher of this paper, as a director of a theater troupe like a human and artistic community, adapted "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky into four plays. They are , , , , and completed in 2009, 2011, 2012, and 2014, respectively as an independent theatric work having no connections to each other in story. Not only because the four plays share the same novel as its origin but also because an identical system is applied to dramatization of the novel, it gives an opportunity to focus on and perceive the role of the director. During the process of dramatiztion, the director, the researcher of this paper, carried all the duties, such as selecting a text, approaching the text theoretically and academically, adapting it for drama, picking out appropriate episodes. This paper defines all these acts as dramaturgical performing acts. In this sense, this paper can also be seen as a documentary of 'acts' performed during the process of dramatization.

본 연구는 인쇄된 텍스트를 수행자 텍스트로 변환하고, 그것을 바탕으로 하나의 예술적 구성물을 구축하는 연출가의 모든 행위 중에서 '드라마투르그'적 수행에 주목한다. 대상은 도스토옙스키의 장편소설 <죄와벌>을 원텍스트로 무대화 된 4편의 연극이다. 이는 7년간의 장기 프로젝트의 결과로, 한 극단에서 창작되었다는 특징이 있다. 본 연구는 이 프로젝트를 중심에서 이끌었던 연출가에 의해 집필된 것이다. 연출가는 러시아 실험연극의 행보를 이끈 메이에르홀드의 1926년 <검찰관> 공연을 그 이론적 토대로 삼아, 창작에 있어 그의 세 가지 기본 명제를 도출했다. 1. 연출가는 '연극의 작가(автор спектакля)'이다 2. '새로운 연극(новый театр)'은 '문학으로부터(из литературы)' 창조된다. 3. 연극이란 한 편의 희곡이 아니라 '작가의 모든 것(всего автора)' 을 무대화 하는 것이다. 7년간의 프로젝트의 중심에 선 '연출가'가 메이에르홀드의 이 세 가지 명제를 중심으로 창작의 이론적 근거를 마련한 것이다. 본 연구의 목적은 첫째, 메이에르홀드의 연극 <검찰관>을 중심으로 세 가지 명제가 도출된 과정을 추이한다. 둘째, 메이에르홀드의 연출방법론적 명제들을 소설텍스트의 희곡화 과정에 어떻게 적용시키며 '실천'했는가에 대한 기록이다.