조사와 연구를 통한 공연 텍스트 구성하기 -여성의 중년 경험에 관한 드라마투르기 구성 과정의 기록 = Composing Performance Text based on Practice as Research -To Document the Dramaturgy process for Women`s Midlife Experience

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The practice as research or the practice-based research implies conscious raising process for one’s own including the other participants against ready-made views as well as distribution of methodology. This work corresponds to the theatre making process based on practice as research, interview, and analysis centering on a theme, the experience of midlife in Korean women. At a certain stage of life, we find ourselves that we are aging and have already crossed the half a lifetime. As we get to be aware of the situation, we realized this is the untrodden aspect of life even though we seem to have been informed enough how we get old and follow the life cycle. Especially being in midlife in Korea has its own cultural and historical connotation. We(a dramaturg, five performers) made thirty questionaires regarding how middle aged individuals from late 45s to early 60s are experiencing and anticipating being aged from how they spend the daily life, what kind of family relationship, when they feel lonely and how they get it over, to when and how they want to die. The interviews were part of practice based research which focused on individuals’ experiences and aimed to explore and awaken what is ahead in or after their midlife different from abstract theory and cultural generalization. After this dramaturg constructed a text with the materials of recorded voices and the discussions. The practice on the stage was taken by six performers as a play-reading. It took place at the small theatre within the library of Sanbon, Gyunggydo. As the theatre was located in the regional civic library, the audience were local residents naturally, including some interviewees. The practice was completely different from the general theatre performance. It foreground the intention to listen to the real and individual experience about Korean middle aged women. This paper was a record regarding how the practice could be intertwined with research as a British verbatim theatre. It was a talk show, or narrative theatre to share each one’s experience as a kind a outreach conscious raising theatre and a proof the effectiveness of the methodology which mixed research with practice. In the process doing the research as a practice, the dramaturg, researchers as performers, and the interviewees had special experience that their former thought and attitude about their midlife has changed from the negative to positive one. Nonetheless, we also found some insufficient parts to develop more according to the feedback after the play-reading.

국문 초록 (Abstract)

공연 예술의 경우 ‘실천으로서의 리서치’ 혹은 ‘실천에 토대를 둔 리서치’ 등의 최근 논의되고 있는 연구 방식은 공연 참여자들이 실천과 이론적 논의를 결합하여 방법론을 공유하며 이론적 결과물을 생산하는 방식을 의미한다. 이는 또한 이론과 실천의 이분법적 괴리 속에서 소외되어 온 실천가들을 학문적 영역 안으로 포용한다는 것을 의미하기도 한다. 이 논문은 ‘실천으로서의 리서치’ 방식을 영국의 버바팀 연극의 방식과 결합하여 중년 여성의 삶을 이해하고 인터뷰를 통해 드라마투르기를 구성한 것에 대한 기록이자 보고서라고 할 있다. 먼저 드라마투르그는 스스로 중년이 되면서 중년이라는 경험이 낯선 영역이며 매스컴에 의해 익숙해진 중년에 대한 상식이 왜곡된 이미지로 균질화되어 있다는 것을 발견하고 리서치의 모티브로 삼았다. 이 점에 동의하는 6명의 배우들과 드라마투르그는 중년에 대한 저술서를 읽고 토의를 하면서 인터뷰 설문을 구성하였다. 그리고 나서 60명의 중년 여성을 상대로 인터뷰를 진행하면서 중년으로 인해 생기는 문제를 파악하고 인터뷰를 통해 인물을 발견하며 개인들의 중년의 경험을 면밀히 살폈다. 인터뷰와 토의 기록을 자료로 드라마투르그는 텍스트를 하나 구성하였다. 이 과정에서 드라마투르그는 실제 삶의 생동감이 살아 있는 언어를 발견할 수 있었고, 이와 더불어 삶 속에서 ‘살아있는’ 인물을 발견하게 되었다. 버바팀 연극 방식을 응용하여 만들어진 중년을 주제로 한 텍스트는 기존의 알려진 담론에서 포착되지 않은 개인들의 다양한 경험을 포착하게 해 주었고, 또한 리서치 과정에서 드라마투르기 구성에 참여한 사람들은 스스로 의식이 성장하였다고 여기게 되었다. 텍스트는 낭독 공연으로 실천되었고 이에 대한 관객 반응을 리서치하여 재구성 중에 있다.

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