Exploration on the Devising and Performance of Two Applied Theatre Projects Collaborating with Institutions

• Main Authors: Hsiao-ho Hung, 洪曉荷
• Other Authors: Wan-jung Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/wje7rs

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 戲劇創作與應用學系碩士班 === 101 === Taiwan’s applied theatre is the result formed by the interaction of the attempt and the operation of different fields. Different institutions collaborate with applied theatres one after another to achieve their special goals through the way that theatre workers lead participants to conduct drama creation and aesthetic performances. This research explores the specialties and the devising characteristics of applied theatres, and it also views different models of the collaboration with institutions from the experiences of Taiwan’s local applied theatres. It analyzes two theatre projects collaborating with institutions, finding out the devising processes and models and the characteristics of performances, to explain how the collaboration brings the meaning and the value of social participation for institutions and participants. The result of this research shows that there are four stages of the devising processes of the drama creation of the applied theatre collaborating with institutions. First, the workers of applied theatres along with the institution must focus on their collaborating goals and methods, and thus launch into the devising stage with participants. Then the workers start to create the drama, but simultaneously keep communicating with the institution to refocus. After the workers finish the drama and enter the rehearsal stage, the drama would still need revising under all sorts of cicumstances. The performance running through this devising process carries the main idea which is centered on the institution’s goals. In addition, the explanation of the text develops according to the participants’ lives and styles, and directly expresses and interacts plainly while the stage elements are publicly close to daily lives. Institutions use applied theatre to be the medium of social participation, devising works become the medium’s primary method to interact and the way to empower the participants. On top of this, participants can practice social participation by devising and performance.