• 비교문화연구
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• 제23권
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• pp.127-165
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• 2011

This paper focuses on the specificities and semantic meaning of Mikhail Bulgakov's metadrama White Guard and The Flight. The standard conception of metadrama is to purposefully break the dramatic illusion and make bare a playwright's self-consciousness of the theatrical art itself. With the use of the metadrama Bulgakov expressed the essentials of ugly reality, which he couldn't accept as a valuable truth. In this respect, Bulgakov's metadrama becomes at once a window, from which he views the external world in the theatrical vision, and a mirror, in which his political and existential stance as a playwright is reflected. In White Guard Bulgakov described the already theatricalized reality through several instances of 'play-within-play'. In The Flight, composed of eight pieces of dream, a life turned out to be a less solid and less firm reality than dream. Continuously demolishing the cognitive wall between reality and illusion, Bulgakov leads spectators to have a reflective view on the reality. Allowing more powerful demonstrativeness for a play-within-play than for a play-within-play, Bulgakov elevates a metadramatic technique to the level of thematic structure.

• 한국엔터테인먼트산업학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.133-143
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• 2019

사극 희곡을 집필하는 데 있어서 시대 언어를 복원하는 것이 극작가의 책임이라는 주장이 있었지만 이에 대한 본격적인 연구는 이루어지지 않고 있었다. 극작가와 국어학자의 협업 연구가 없었기 때문이다. 지금까지 많은 극작가들은 언어를 발굴하고 복원하는 것이 오롯이 국어학자들의 책임이라고 여겼다. 그러나 연극이나 영화와 같이 대중과 쉽게 만날 수 있는 매체야말로 창작에 있어서 큰 책임을 가져야 할 것이다. 언어라는 것은 시대에 따라 변한다. 따라서 희곡과 시나리오에서 시대언어를 복원하는 것은 현대의 관객과의 소통의 어려움을 초래할 수 있다. 그러나 언어가 시대에 따라 변한다는 것은 당대의 사회상과 유행을 담아낸다는 것을 뜻한다. 따라서 사극에서의 언어 복원은 장면과 배경을 더욱 사실적으로 묘사할 수 있다는 것을 의미한다. 언어의 복원은 창작 환경 개선을 위해서만 필요한 것은 아니다. 이러한 노력은 이미 학습되어진 관객의 시대 언어 이해 능력에 부합하는 작가의 책임으로 이해되어야 한다. 사극을 집필하는 극작가는 배경이 되는 시대의 문법을 익히는 것에 그치지 않고 소실된 발음과 변용된 어휘를 발굴하여 다채로운 대사를 구사할 수 있도록 해야 할 것이다.

• 영어영문학
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.129-147
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• 2008

Since the beginning of her dramatic career, Suzan-Lori Parks has considered digging up and restoring African-American history buried under the dominant white Anglo-Saxon history as her mission as a playwright. In Red Letter Plays, she attempts what Deborah Geis called "canon-critique" by taking canonical work by Nathaniel Hawthorne and casting an African-American character as the main character and describing her oppression as an African-American female. This paper argues that Suzan-Lori Parks accuses the oppressive social system by restoring and representing the history of sexual, economic, and racial exploitation that African-American females had to suffer through the dominant image of body and blood. Parks had to rewrite the history of black female characters on their bodies and in the blood because their bodies have been the ultimate object of revulsion and attraction in the perspective of white male. While abhorring and despising Hester La Negrita's abject body, male characters in In the Blood nonetheless not only exploit her sexually and economically but also impregnate her. Hester resorts to her only means of revolting against this oppressive system; she kills her most beloved son and writes "A" on the floor with his blood. Likewise, Hester Smith in Fucking A, who wears "A" on her bosom like Hester Prynne, which in this case means "abortionist," "saves" her son from the hunters by slitting his throat. Abundant graphic and sensational images written on black female body and in the blood are Parks's dramatic strategy to rewrite the forgotten and hidden history of black women's history.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.248-273
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• 2019

본 연구는 근대 독일 작센-마이닝겐 공국의 군주 '게오르크 2세 공작'의 연극관과 연출론에 대해 마이닝거 프린?에 기초하여 그의 동시대적 맥락에서 고찰하였다. 그는 연극을 국내외 현실을 중재하고 국위를 고양하기 위한 합목적적 매체로 활용한 연극-문화정치가이자 제작자 겸 연출자였다. 지면 여건상 그의 연출론을 중심으로 요약하면, 그는 마이닝겐 극단에서 종합예술작품인 연극의 창조를 목표로 하여, 희곡 원전을 작가의 대변자적 입장에서 상연하는 연출 방법론을 수립하였다. 그의 전제적인 연출법에 수반된 포괄적 역사주의, 학술적 선행연구, 원전에 충실한 해석과 완결된 앙상블 효과를 위한 목적연출, 제작 단계별 분업과 협업, 배우의 개성과 앙상블 연기 중시, 체계적인 배우훈련과 철저한 리허설 실행 및 배우연극의 스타시스템과 전문역 같은 낡은 관행과 관습의 배격 등은 연극창조의 새로운 가치관과 실천 체계로서 혁신적인 것이었다. 그는 연출(자)의 독립과 독자성을 수립하며 근대 연출자연극의 새로운 지평을 열었고, 이로써 근 현대 연출가연극을 위한 토대를 놓았다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.180-187
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• 2021

This thesis explores the place and role of a performer's action from a perspective of a director and playwright David Mamet's concept for performer training. This thesis takes inspiration from the idea of Mamet's simple and practical investigation specifically in text-based approach with a performer's bodily function on stage. For Mamet, the writings and practices of many different body-centered training are not rooted in the principle and nature of acting/performance. Reconsidering complicated approaches particularly psychological-oriented theory, practice, and assumption draw on several practitioners takes us beyond the field of visible and/or outer appearance of a performer which in turn leads the performer's body to be as abstract therefore not to being in the moment on stage. Arming the points, we argue that whatever disciplines and/or methods necessarily need to meet the principles and demands of acting/performance/theatre to connect to the materials, an action/objective given by a specific playwright which the performer must inhabit through his/her body. Out of the context, any 'method' serves no purpose. That is, the mechanics of an action is an extension of addressing what a performer's specific needs which shifts his/her body to respond appropriately to the theatrical demands. Taking this argument further, we claim that the purpose of performer training should not be understood as learning and improving techniques or skills for his/her self-perfection. The research finding shows that this resembles to the phenomenon that the visible very often precedes the invisible where the performer's body lose a clarity with no more chance to happen and/or change the event(s). Rather, it is a process of learning what/how to learn which in turn brings us back to the central question of why we do training for what purpose in this contemporary era. Exploring and answering these questions is not only a way to employ the key materials applicable to the theatrical demands but also to achieve the identify as a professional performer/doer on stage.

• 영어영문학
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.539-565
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• 2009

T. S. Eliot attempted the combining of the liturgy of Anglican Church and a drama in Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and created a modern verse drama which comes most close to the regular tragedy like Greek tragedy today. Eliot chose the drama to deliver his religious insight because of its ritualistic origin and its potentiality to deliver a dramatic world which can contain a complete order. The central theme of this play is the martyrdom. The dramatic action of killing the archbishop Thomas Beckett in this play, however, is not treated as important event enough to be a dramatic climax. He is portrayed as a witness to the reality of God's will rather than a man who wills to give up his own life for any religious belief or cause. In Eliot, a martyr is nothing but "a witness" in its ancient sense. This paper purposes to review the language of this play. The various and new meters and rhythms of the language of this play function enough to bring its playwright to encounter 'the real audience' in 'a living theatre'. The interactions between different verbal models also play a big role to make this play a living theatre. Eliot found the poetry which crosses the various classes and levels of the tastes of audience is the most useful poetry. And the poetry of this play proves as the very thing which intensifies the theme of the play and gives the most powerful force to the play. Especially Eliot's poetry succeeds smost in the various and free meters of chorus, which makes Eliot the first playwright since Aeschylus, who could bring the chorus to undertake the function of extending the dramatic action of the play into the universal meaning. In the theatre the real audience identifies themselves with chorus. And the chorus leads the audience to respond to peace which passeth understanding beyond words and sounds of this play, which is the desired response in Eliot's conception of drama.

• 미국학
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.67-96
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• 2021

The Canadian public broadcaster CBC had successfully aired a sitcom centered on a Korean immigrant family from 2016 to 2021. The show is based on the play Kim's Convenience written by a Korean-Canadian playwright Ins Choi. This study explores literary features of Kim's Convenience that accounts for its popularity; three elements of the show play crucial roles in maintaining the balance between specificity and universality. First, Choi deploys a Korean immigrant story in the form of comedy. Second, the main plot revolves around an ordinary family with generational strains that ends in reconciliation. Third. the Kims are depicted more as an archetypical family than a stereotypically Asian one. By closely interweaving these elements, Choi induces the audience to find commonalities from the show, and racial specificities of the Kim's family become "spicy" attractions of the play.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.503-515
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• 2018

이 논문은 음악사에 절대적 영향을 끼친 극작가 윌리엄 셰익스피어(William Shakespeare)의 작품들을 토대로 탄생한 다양한 음악작품을 중심으로 음악사 안에 내재된 셰익스피어의 영향력과 가치를 재조명한다. 그 방법으로 셰익스피어의 원작을 언급함과 동시에 동일 소재를 사용한 서로 다른 음악 작품들을 분석하며, 또한 셰익스피어가 제공한 극적 장치에 따른 음악적 구현에 관하여 '셰익스피어의 음악적 언급과 텍스트', '구성적 본보기와 그 변형', '인물묘사와 인간상의 구현', '장르적 다양성과 창조적 가능성' 등 네 가지 측면을 통하여 고찰한다.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.117-132
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• 2007

Playwright Eugene O'Neill's expressionistic text-based approach to The Emperor Jones, with an emphasis on fixity, was at odds with African American actor Charles Gilpin's improvisational performance technique, stressing rupture, spontaneity, and discontinuity. The contemporary avant-garde performance troupe The Wooster Group likewise produces subversive and interrogative forms of identity in performing the play, which challenge the normative approach to gender, race, and an imagined orientation. The historical foundation of subversion and destabilization laid by O'Neill and Gilpin were manifold in the Wooster Group's production of The Emperor Jones, and not only formed a backdrop to it but also played a central role in the group's representation of race and even gender on the stage. In this essay, I use O'Neill's play, The Emperor Jones, a crucial example of racialized fantasies of identification, to explore how the modernist stage through the performances of Gilpin and The Wooster Group constructed racialized subjects of both its performers and audiences. Gilpin and the Wooster Group's strategies each shared a similar complexity in the portrayal of black identity in performance. Offering an examination of how ideologies of race and gender overlap in The Emperor Jones, I hope to show how each performance signifies a range of subversions and differences simultaneously and sometimes oppositionally that needs to be explored both holistically and in detail to offer a fuller picture of these remarkable attempts. Through this approach, I examine Gilpin's creative adaptations of O'Neill's text and illuminate how it is that the Wooster Group's appropriative use of blackface in their performance has come to gain critical acceptance.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.147-156
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• 2013

공연예술계의 원로배우에 대한 기록과 보존의 과정은 여타 다른 예술장르보다 까다롭고 난해하여 원형 그대로의 형태로 유지한다는 것은 불가능하다. 그럼에도 불구하고 생존하고 있는 원로배우를 대상으로 기록화 하는 작업에 대한 연구 필요성과 역사적 의미는 매우 중요하다. 한국연극사의 다양한 시도와 발전은 열악한 환경 속에서도 현장을 지킨 공연예술인들의 부단한 노력에 의해 활발히 진행되어 왔다. 하지만 공연예술계의 예술인들의 대한 기록사업의 기록과 보존에 대한 인식이 뒤늦게 이뤄져 한국 근현대 예술사를 빛낸 원로배우들의 소중한 자산들이 손. 망실 되어가고 있는 것은 안타까운 일이 아닐 수 없다. 이에 본 연구는 배우, 작가, 연출가 등으로 활동을 한 원로배우 김길호(金吉浩)의 일생 중 남도(南道) 목포연극을 중심으로 그의 활동과 생애를 탐색하고 원로배우 유산 기록화 하는 작업의 의미를 되새기고자한다.