• 공연문화연구
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• 제23호
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• pp.5-36
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• 2011

한국의 희곡/연극 이론의 주요 텍스트인 「광대가」와 일본 희곡/연극 이론의 주요 텍스트인 「풍자화전」을 비교해 보면, 「광대가」는 다음과 같은 희곡/연극 이론으로서의 특징을 드러내고 있다. 첫째, 그 전체 내용 구성상에서는, 본질론·배우론·상연론 등 3개의 영역으로 구성되어 있으면서, 텍스트 중심의 희곡/연극이론이 아니라, 공연자 중심의 희곡/연극이론을 구축하고 있다. 둘째, 희곡/연극 본질론 상으로는, '공연하는 인간(homo performans)'으로서의 자각과 실천, '자생적 가치'의 옹호, 민중적 가치의 옹호, 민중적인 현세주의·허무주의에 대한 새로운 해석 등의 특징을 보여준다. 셋째, 배우론/연기론 상으로는 '4체 이론'을 골자로 해서 이론이 구축되고 있다. 넷째, 상연론 상의 특징으로는, 「풍자화전」의 그것이 '꽃의 실현'에 그 궁극적인 목표가 있는 반면에, 「광대가」의 그것은 우주 삼라만상의 온갖 변화와 조화를 표현하는 '천변만화(千變萬化)의 구현에 그 목표를 두고 있다.

• 한국연극학
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• 제48호
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• pp.261-288
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• 2012

This paper attempts to research on the new language in the directing of Ara Kim. She was cranky on working on the stage to experiment with her own style since the 1980s and so opened a new dawn in modern Korean theatre. She leaded the Korean experimental theatre. The background of this experiment is her idea on theatre. And here, we have to look the subject that she setted for the work in Chuksan: Ritual Past, Ritual Present. To her, the theatre has the function of ritual and fest. The theatre suggests universal tragedy given to human as natural life force and has its own agenda to drive people to healing. For it, Ara Kim explores archetypal forms and languages before the fragmentation of genres of art. Her theatre shows the results of experiments in which such languages are recreated with modernized sensibilities. We here, for example by outdoor performance in Chuksan Human Lear, try to interpret the aesthetic principles that body out her ritual theatre. And what we looked at though, is the base of the 'complex-genre-music-theatre', the methode to 'compose' the stage elements and put it all together. The directing of Ara Kim has, in terms of the composition of the stage elements, much of the indisputable artistic value. Her theatre is, so to speak, theatre of image, and it is theatre of imagination that completed by the audience's imagination. Human Lear which has its own characteristic in image fragments, convert the original Lear into a simple tale. It serves as background of the modern ritual that shows the most basic human instincts. We meet in Human Lear a ritual tale with some list of image for the human instincts. The arrangement of image, the montage of scene shows the performance as a kind of artistic space. In Human Lear the space is the natural one. It centers around the arena stage. The objects installed in the space changes it into the laboratory for 'seeing' the happening. The spectators see the performance and at the same time see themselves in the nature laboratory. They see, and equally, they are visible objects. They see the performance and us in the space in which the performance takes place. That is what Ara Kim with her modern ritual really aims. That aim is to this days still in effect. It is a major driver of her experiments to extend the boundary of the theatre. The ritualistic site-specific performance in Akor Wat, Cambodia, A Song of Mandala is the latest great product from her experiments. On the other hand, she continues on her way to experiment with pure stage elements. The 'Station' series(Station of Water, The Station of Sand, The Station of Wind) she recently showed are the non-verbal performance with all the stage elements: movement, sound, body, light, colour, objects and so on.

• 한국연극학
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• 제48호
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• pp.359-384
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to explore the theatrical aesthetics of the performances which was produced by the theater director, Yang Jung-Ung. Yang has been one of the most influential directors working in Korea in the last 15 years. He has put up performances all over the world with the theater members from his company called Yohangza, which was founded by him in 1997, and working as the director, portrayed his style of the theatrical aesthetics through the works of its plays and musical products. In 2012, this company performed A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. A Midsummer Night's Dream was invited to be staged at the Barbican Center in 2006. In the same year, it received the grand prize and the Audience Choice award at the Gdansk International Shakespeare Festival in Poland. The musical products like A Good Woman from Seoul and the modern Opera Wozeck are representative works of Yohangza, which are known for a unique way of exploring the meaning of life. The 2009 plays Hamlet and Peer Gynt represent Yohangza's simpler yet more insightful theatrical style. Peer Gynt, which debuted at the LG Art Center, made headlines for its innovative staging. It received the grand prix, Best Director and Best Stage Art awards at the 2009 Korea Theater Awards. Yohangza's plays show two-side "image-based" works. The company drastically reduced verbal lines and enriched the plays with Korean sentiment and aesthetics, but their scripts contained many poetic lines full of overtones. They showed a theatrical mise-en-scene of images, energetic dance, songs in chorus and percussion. For example, Korean sentiments were subtly blended into the two Shakespeare's plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Nights. Their performance combines music, mime, song and dance to create an exhilarating adaptation of Shakespeare's inventive and glittering comedy. In addition, the style of Yohangza Theatre Company is a collision of the past and the present: a reworking of existing Korean styles and themes infused with contemporary elements and full of unique exploration in the plays.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권8호
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• pp.4844-4852
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• 2014

해외의 많은 축제들은 '도시이미지 마케팅' 차원에서 기획되는 경향이 짙으며, 우리나라에서도 이러한 추세가 서서히 반영되고 있다. 김천국제가족연극제 역시 대한민국 행복중심도시를 표방하는 김천시의 '도시이미지 마케팅'과 맞닿아 생겨난 축제 가운데 하나이다. 이러한 차원에서 기획된 축제의 대부분은 중도에 흐지부지되는 경우가 많지만 김천국제가족연극제는 타 연극제와의 차별화 전략을 통해 관객 개발에 있어서 관객확보의 성공적 사례로 12회를 이어가고 있다. 본 논문은 김천국제가족연극제의 역사와 현황을 바탕으로 특징과 차별성을 짚어보고 5년 연속 관객점유율 100%을 이어가고 있는 관객개발 방법을 분석하고자 한다. 지역 공연예술축제가 지닌 예술성과 지역성과의 결합을 통해 관객들에게 '보여주는' 간접적 참여에 그치는 연극제가 아니라 관객들이 직접 '만지고 느끼는' 참여 유희성 자발성을 지닌 연극제로서 발돋움함은 당연하다. 이에 김천국제가족연극제의 발전을 위한 개선방안과 과제를 제시하는데 그 의의가 있다.

• 한국연극학
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• 제53호
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• pp.167-202
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• 2014

When video composes mise-en-scene during the performance, it reflects the aspect of contemporary image culture, where the individual as creator joins in the image culture through the device of cell phone and computer remediating the former video technology. It also closely related with the contemporary theatre culture in which 1960's and 1970's video art was weaved into the contemporary performance theatre. With these cultural background, theatre practitioners regarded media-friendly mise-en-scene as an alternative facing the cultural landscape the linear representational narrative did not correspond to the present culture. Nonetheless, it can not be ignored that video in the performance theatre is remediating its historical function: to criticize the social reality. to enrich the aesthetic or emotional reality. I focused video in the performance theatre could feature the object with the image by realizing the realtime relay, emphasizing the situation within the frame, and strengthening the reality by alluding the object as a gesutre. So I explored its two historical manuel. First, video recorded the spot, communicated the information, and arose the audience's recognition of the object to its critical function. Second, video in performance theatre could redistribute perceptual way according to the editing method like as close up, slow motion, multiple perspective, montage and collage, and transformation of the image to the aesthetic function. Reminding the historical function of video in contemporary performance theatre, I analyzed two shows, Schaubuhne's Hamlet and Lenea de Sombra's Amarillo which were introduced to Korean audiences during the 2010 Seoul Theatre Olympics. It is known to us that Ostermeir found real social reality as a text and made the play the context. In this, he used video as a vehicle to penetrate the social reality through the hero's perspective. It is also noteworthy that Ostermeir understood Hamlet's dilemma as these days' young generation's propensity. They delayed action while being involved in image culture. Besides his use of video in the piece revitalized the aesthetic function of video by hypermedial perceptual method. Amarillo combined documentary theatre method with installation, physical theatre, and video relay on the spot, and activated aesthetic function with the intermediality, its interacting co-relationship between the media. In this performance theatre, video has recorded and pursued the absent presence of the real people who died or lost in the desert. At the same time it fantasized the emotional aspect of the people at the moment of their death, which would be opaque or non prominent otherwise. As a conclusion, I found the video in contemporary performance theatre visualized the rupture between the media and perform their intermediality. It attempted to disturb the transparent immediacy to invoke the spectator's perception to the theatrical situation, to open its emotional and spiritual aspect, and to remind the realities as with Schaubuhne's Hamlet and Lenea de Sombra's Amarillo.

• 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.

• 한국연극학
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• 제48호
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• pp.385-419
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• 2012

Son Jinchaek got into his directing career since 1976 when he founded the theatre group Minye with Huhgyu and others. His experience in Minye was the turnaround of his life; Huhgyu was a teacher in his artist's life whereas Brecht was a teacher for his ideology to make 'Korean Theatre'. From these two teachers, he learned how and why Korean Theatre should be made. Since then, Korean theatre was his calling for 40 years of his directing career. As he established Michoo in 1986, it served a turning point in his art. His focus was on intrinsic attributes of Korean Theatre with Madang Jungshin. With Madang Jungshin, he tried to get over the former generation's fixation on external materials of Korean traditional theatre and folk culture to make Korean Theatre. Rather, he believed Korean Theatre could be realized when it grafted Korean social reality onto the stage, while the form was subsequent. He advocated Korean Theatre should mirror present social reality and circulate social energy. Also, he did not give up aesthetics. On the contrary, his aesthetic style was conspicuously evident in his productions. In spite of his life long career with noteworthy works, the critical discourses are strikingly scarce especially when compared with other senior and peer directors such as Hugh Gyu, Ahn Minsoo, Oh Taesok, and Lee Yoontaek. During his career he has crossed into various genres from Changeuk, Madangnori, and to theatres, which were too versatile to thread them into a discourse and caused a lack of theoretical greeting. Madangnori has anchored its artistic structure on its polished aesthetics which were acclaimed by the general audience for 30 years. For theatre, he concentrated on one production per year to grasp its own style. Theatre works also had revealed his own style of being opened and of being emptied which was certainly different from Madangnori, but had same aesthetic principle within it. This paper attempts to recompose his stylistic features with 'Madang aesthetics' which were based on open space, open acting style, and graphic ensemble. This paper tries to demonstrate how his 'Madang aesthetics' has refined his productions in scenography, acting style, and in more like metaphoric and metonymic symbolic expression of the graphic ensemble. To do this, two productions were explored: eLee Chunpoongjeun and Yulha Ilgyee Manbo. Madangnori was sorely explored by Son Jinchaek with his artistic colleagues Yoon Munshik, Kim Jongyeup, Kim Sungnyu, music designer Park Buhmhoon, and choreographer Guk Sooho. Though it has been ignored for its popular appeal by the doctrinaire theoretical opinions, it started to pull academic attention recently. His theatres are also getting sharp with his 'Madang aesthetics' as well as minimalistic expression in scenography, acting style, and graphic ensemble. Madang Jungshin is the soul and Madang aesthetics is the body in his artistic works. The Madang Jungshin animates the Madang aesthetics, so they become alive in his theatre.

• 한국연극학
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• 제40호
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• pp.307-344
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• 2010

Cultural Studies built on the critical mind of New Left exposes the relationship between culture and power, and investigates how this relationship develops the cultural convention. It has achieved the new perspective that could make us to think culture and art in terms of political correctness. However, the critical voices against the theoretical premises of Cultural Studies have been increased as its heyday in 1980s was nearly over. For instance, Terry Eagleton, a former Marxist literary critic, declared in 2003 that the golden age of cultural theory is long past. This essay, therefore, intends to show the weak foundations on which the approaches of cultural studies to theatre rest and to clarify the general problem of their introduction to theatre studies. The approach of cultural studies to theatre takes the form of 'top-down inquiry' as it applies a theory to a particular play or historical period. In other word, from the theory the writer moves to the particular case. The result is not an inquiry but rather a demonstration. This circularity can destroy the point of serious intellectual investigation as the theory dictates answers. The goal-oriented narrow viewpoint as a logical consequence of 'top-down inquiry' makes the researcher to favor the plays or the parts of a play that are proper to test a theory. As a result it loses the fair judgment on the artistic value of a play, and brings about the misinterpretation. The interpreter-oriented reading is the other defect of cultural studies as it disregards the inherent meaning of the text, distorting a play. The approach of cultural studies also consists of a conventionality as it arrives at a stereotyped interpretation by using certain conventions of reasoning and rhetoric. The cultural theories are fundamentally the 'outside theories' that seek to explain not theatre but the very broad features of society and politics. Consequently their application to theatre risks the destructive criticism, disregarding the inherent experience of theatre. Most of, if not all, cultural theories, furthermore, are proven to be lack of empirical basis. The alternative method to them is a 'cognitive science' that proves scientifically our mind being influenced by bodily experience. The application of cultural materialism to Shakespeare's is one of the cases that reveal the limits of cultural studies. Jonathan Dollimore and Water Cohen provide a kind of 'canonical study' in this application that is imitated by the succeeding researchers. As a result the interpretation of has been flooded with repetitive critical remarks, revealing the problem of 'top-down inquiry' and conventional reasoning. Cultural Studies is antipodal to theatre in some respect. It is interested chiefly in the social and political reality while theatre aims to create the fiction world. The theatre studies, therefore, may have to risk the danger of destroying its own base when it adopts cultural studies uncritically. The different stance between theatre and cultural theories also occurs from the opposition of humanism vs. antihumanism. We have to introduce cultural theories selectively and properly not to destroy the inherent experience and domain of theatre.

• 공연문화연구
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• 제40호
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• pp.223-268
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• 2020

동시대극에서 관객과 공연의 직접적인 소통을 유도하는 사례가 두드러지게 나타나고 있다. 특히 디지털 기술의 발달과 더불어 관객은 개인화된 경험을 원한다. 이러한 흐름 속에서 등장한 '이머시브 극'은 동시대극을 대표하는 장르라고 보아도 될 정도로 국내외에서 큰 주목을 받고 있다. 특히 '이머시브 극'이라는 개념이 등장하는데 가장 큰 역할을 한 극단이 영국의 펀치드렁크 극단이다. 그리고 이들을 대표하는 공연 <슬립 노 모어>는 2003년 영국 '런던'에서의 초연을 시작으로 미국 '뉴욕'과 중국 '상하이'에까지 영역을 넓히며 2019년 현재까지도 지속적으로 큰 인기를 끌고 있다. 일반적으로 <슬립 노 모어>에서 관객의 역할에 대한 기존의 연구들을 살펴보면 관객의 참여에 중점을 두고 있다는 것을 알 수 있다. 관객에게 어떤 경험을 줄 것인가가 동시대극에서 강조될 수밖에 없다. 관객의 다양한 욕구를 충족시키기 위해 동시대극은 점점 어떤 하나의 이론으로 설명할 수 없는 복잡성을 보여주고 있다. 본 고에서 살펴볼 <슬립 노 모어> 또한 마찬가지이다. 그리고 이는 관객마다 개인화된 경험을 바라고 있고 관객 또한 자라 온 환경이나 보유한 지식이나 문화수준, 취향에 따라 경험의 차이가 존재하기 때문이다. 본 연구는 동시대극을 대표할 수 있는 공연으로 펀치드렁크 극단의 <슬립 노 모어>를 선정하고 이 작품을 중심으로 동시대극에 나타나는 관객역할에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 이를 위해 먼저 관객역할에 대한 과거의 논의들을 역사적으로 탐색하여 동시대극에 나타나는 관객역할의 특징에 대해 논의하였다. 다음으로<슬립 노 모어>에서 나타나는 관객 역할에 대해 연구자와 함께 이 공연을 관람한 연구자 '그'의 경험을 세부적으로 분석하였다. 결론적으로 <슬립 노 모어>에서 관객의 경험은 다양하고 복잡하게 나타났다. 즉 포스트 드라마 극에서 주목하는 참여자로써의 관객뿐만 아니라 프로시니엄 극에서의 전통적인 관객의 역할 또한 공연 내에서 복합적으로 나타나고 있던 것이다. 그리고 이러한 복잡성은 우연히 일어난 것이 아니라 펀치드렁크 극단의 기획 전략이었던 것이다. 그러므로 동시대극에서 나타나는 관객의 역할에 대해 논의할 때 자칫 단순히 관객을 참여자로 바라보는 시각 하나로만 접근하는 것이 아니라 다양한 시각에서 접근을 통해 동시대 극에 나타나는 복잡한 특성들을 명확히 바라보는 시각을 가진 논의들이 이어져야 할 것이다.

• 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.