쇼팔로비치 유랑 극단 읽기 = Reading of Ljubomir Simović's Drama: "Travelling theater Shopalovich"

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Most plays are written not to be read in books but to be performed. True, plays are meant to be seen on stages, but equally true, reading a play may afford advantages. So even if a play may be seen in a theater, sometimes to read it in print may be our way of knowing it as the author wrote it in its entirety. This paper is a study of Serbian drama and theater through a close reading of Ljubomir Simović's drama, Travelling theater Shopalovich
(1975). This paper aims to read Travelling theater Shopalovich from a historic as well as a popular point of view like a spectator. The action takes place in the provincial town of Užice, at the beginning of World War Ⅱ. precisely in the summer of 1941. A travelling company of actors lead by Vasilije Šopalović and whose members are the young actress Sofija, the experinced actress Jelisaveta and the unpredictable Filip, arrive in the town and they want to preform Schiller's The Robbers. They find accomodations in the house of Simka, a widow who is still young. Also living in the house are Gina, a woman of the people, and her alcoholic husband
Blagoje. Attempting to somehow organised their performance they come across a gendarme who finds them extremely suspicious, particularly because they tell him that in private life they use certain names, while in the performance they "play" people with quite different names. For this reason he takes them into custody, and takes
them to the German headquarters of the town, where they are taken over by the Volkdeutscher Majcen. When the leader of the company shows the interrogator a written permit to hold a performance of the Robbers issued by a higher authority, he lets them go, but wonders how they can perform a play when the "shadow of gallows" falls
across their stage. While the company prepares for their first evening performance, there is shooting on the town square and the quisling deputy of the town and his mistress are killed. Suspicion falls on Gina and Blagoje's young son, the political activist Sekular, who is arrested immediately. Before interrogation he will be worked over by the infamous Drobac, widely known for his brutality and bloodthirstiness. Since there has been a shooting incident, the gendarme comes to inform the actors that aa public meetings have been prohibited and their performance as well. The actors show the written permission that they have, but it cannot help them since the gendarme eats it on the spot. The infamous thug Drobac appears making bloody tracks with his enormous peasant shoes. Though brutal and ruthless. Drobac is taken with the coquettish and attractive Sofija. At one moment during a sweltering summer night they meet on the river, a stranges love scene takes place in which the torturer undergoes a kind of catharsis. Seeing this, lead by Blagoje the citizens attack the innocent actress, beat her and shave her hair off. Bloody tracks are left behind the leader of this group, Blagoje. There is soon another incident in which the crazed actor, Filip, who speaks the lines of his role and seemingly admits the morning assassination, is killed. The play's finale takes place in the morning of a new day in which the Šopalović travelling theatre sets out on a new journey. They try to explain Filip's intention. Didi he, under the mask of an actor, really kill the evildoers, or did he consciously take the responsibility in order
to save the young man or was be quite an innocent victim of his stage madness - the mystery remains. The young woman comes to wish the actors a good journey and she does not hide that she is happy that her lover, Sekular, has been freed, but she forgets to tell them that the thug Drobac has hung himself by the whip he used to
beat others. It focuses on analyzing its characters' statements, behaviors, backgrounds and their mutual relationships with each other.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 머리말
• Ⅱ. 유고슬라비아 연극
• Ⅲ. 환상과 현실의 대비
• Ⅳ. 맺음말