• 공연문화연구
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• 제23호
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• pp.245-280
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• 2011

현대 한국 연극의 주요한 흐름 중의 하나는 한국의 전통적 제의인 '굿'을 연극에 도입하고 있는 작업이다. 이러한 작업은 문화의 다원화라는 흐름과 함께 굿을 창조적으로 연극에 수용하려는 경향을 대두시켰다. 한국에서 제의 연극의 연구 방향은 제의로서의 굿에 내재되어 있는 연극성을 이론적으로 규명하는 작업을 중심으로 서양의 제의 연극에 관해 탐구하는 방향으로 모색되어 왔다. 본 연구는 아르또가 세운 제의 연극의 이론을 기반으로, 한국연극에 나타난 제의 수용 양상을 「산씻김」, 「오구」를 통해 제의의 수용 양상과 제의 연극적 특성을 분석하였다. 제의의 수용 양상은 이 작품들이 '씻김굿'과 '오구굿'에서 어떠한 형태들을 차용하고 있는지를 분석하였고, 제의 연극적 특성은 이 작품들을 아르또의 관점과 구별되게 분석하였다. 따라서 본 연구는 굿의 연극적 수용 형태를 살펴봄으로써 한국 연극에 굿이 어떠한 형태로 수용되는지 그 구조와 특성을 분석해 보았다. 한국의 제의 연극은 굿에서 출발점을 삼고 있다. 아르또의 잔혹연극 또한 아시아의 무당굿에서 비롯된 발리 댄스에서 영향력 입은 바가 무척 크다. 따라서 그 공통점은 상당히 드러난다. 한국의 굿, 또는 제의 연극이 제의성과 놀이성을 동시에 추구한다는 점이 관객을 낯설게 하는 아르또와는 다소 다른 점이지만 관객과의 소통을 원하고자 했다는 점에서 유사성이 발견된다. 앞으로 제의성의 현대 연극에 대한 수용은 관객과의 소통과 정화와 치료라는 매개로 전개해 나갈 때 그 방향은 한층 뚜렷하게 드러날 것이리라 믿는다.

• 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.

• 한국연극학
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• 제49호
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• pp.171-208
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• 2013

Site-specific performance is always the real on-site work taking place at the site. Hence, it deals with the reality, in other words, the time of creation and formation. And it creates value and meaning through the interaction and continuous direct communication process between the performers, audience and the local residents. In this performance, the audience's status as the passive observer changes. They become the co-agent who actively lead and complete the performance through their own experience. We have examined the The Working Methods of Site-specific Performance and Aesthetics of Effect through four Korean performances ; Marie, An aesthetic experiment of site as the storyteller; Heterotopia and Urban Movement Research or Play: We Will Move Your Sofa, as performances which have Revealed history, politics, institution engraved in the site ; A Song of Mandala and Miracle, as a ritualistic site-specific performance at the historic site. Some remarks on Site-specific performance ; First, In Site-specific performance, the habitus peculiar to the stage art and the mode of reception are changed. Second, a new mode of theatrical communication requires creator and audience to have a sharp aesthetic sensibility and to change one's perceptual habit. Third, Site-specific performance can act as a demonstration for the viewpoints of political activism through what could be called a dramatic close-up effect. Fourth, Site-specific performance also has the risk of merely becoming an unfocused and scattered performance or degenerating into a pseudo-sightseeing. To avoid this, an in-depth study of the site and its socio-cultural context, and the clear motivation with which one is trying to reveal and tell from the site must be indispensable. As the co-agent, the audience should also be aware and think about what the given performance signifies today.