The trend of a play, which has been newly emerged in the Korean plays since the mid-1990s, is the emphasis on ``new theatricality.`` 1his has the main aesthetics as presentation rather than representation, and stresses visual image, collage compositio...
The trend of a play, which has been newly emerged in the Korean plays since the mid-1990s, is the emphasis on ``new theatricality.`` 1his has the main aesthetics as presentation rather than representation, and stresses visual image, collage composition, entertainment, microscopic life, and ordinariness. The first-string new play-writers and producers, who grew in the period of abundance, and experienced the collapse in the East European bloc and the end in the Cold War, did depict a family matter, the surrounding reality, fantasy, and ordinariness with new-generational sensation or mass-culture code, escaping from ideologically, racially, historically and psychologically huge discourse. Cho Kwang-hwa positions on the front line of the first-string young play-writers who led the fringe culture or the mass-culture code plays in this way. He broke a frame of the existing highbrow play stage by utilizing elements such as gang-violence matter, character structure and background in ``film noir`` style, murder & violence, and fighting scene, and presented the play grammar of positively communicating with young audience in the image generation. In particular, his plays utilizes the Oedipus structure and the mass-culture code, and aims to disclose violence and falsehood in family myth of a patriarchal system through this. He thought that the family myth and violence in a patriarchal system are placed in the origin of human civilization, and tried to depict ``tragic passion`` through the Oedipus structure, which is the most archetype situation. This study analyzed the main plays in Cho Kwang-hwa, and tried to analyze with Lacan`s psychoanalysis criticism methodology on how new theatricality is being implemented and is being made the artistic accomplishment by utilizing the Oedipus structure and the mass-culture code, and whether it is related to any social unconsciousness. Cho Kwang-hwa is taking off falsehood in the myth of a patriarchal system through the tragic ruin in a male hero who is captured by ``strong male`` fantasy. However, the sight is dual and disruptive. It is also contained a mother of sterilizing her son, the male`s horror and anxiety of the female`s rebellion against sacrifice and devotion, fear of contraction or defamation in masculinity.