A Discourse of Power / Authority in the Theatre: Centered on the Activities of Xing Guang Ju Tuan and its Branches

• Main Authors: Ju-Shan Cheng, 鄭如珊
• Other Authors: 陳芳英
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25532905266235911467

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 戲劇學系碩士班 === 94 === Based on the concept of Benedict Anderson''s `Imagined Communities,’this thesis tries to conjecture the possibility of ` "Power" Communities．’By getting through Cheng Wei Man''s life, the thesis is to deduce the characters of the Power/Authority in the theater. Cheng founded the Xing Guang Ju Tuan as to be the blueprint of Taiwan theater. He led the Youths of Ta Tao Cheng into the theater. In addition, he built the Utopia due to his belief of Anarchism. This thesis attempts to categorize these Youths as `the Intellectuals of Theater,’and observes that their behaviors with the indefatigable energies and the exiled psychologies is the chance， for their fatality to be imprisoned, to complete their own ideologies． In order to define the“‘Power”Communities’and to compare the differences among the Mn Ju (New Play) festivals，this thesis also pays attention to the series of the activities that Xing Guang Ju Tuan joined in and concerns with the spirit of its branches. Based on Foucault''s and Said''s concepts of `Power,’this thesis is to disclose that the power function hides in the society with the particular qualities of Space, Production and Body. As a result, we can imagine what the representation of Power is. Finally, we can make sure that all actions of the intellectuals were resulted from the crisis of lacking identification. The intellectuals in the Japanese governance transferred their activities from politics to art．By means of“‘Power” Communities''，we can discover that what they longed for is the `contrapuntal identification'' instead of the `single identification.’Nevertheless, all the people still yearn for the `multiplicate identify'' up to now.