Exploration on localization of local culture from environmental theatre－A case study on “The legend of anti-French” at Tamshui

• Main Authors: ShuJen Lai, 賴沭臻
• Other Authors: Kangkuo ho
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3v8e8x

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 表演藝術研究所 === 102 === Under the wave of globalization, all countries in the world are also relatively emerging a fashion to reform their local cultures. Each County and City here in Taiwan spares no efforts to promote various local culture under two projects of the “Guidance of the County and City to transact the activities plan for small international culture and art” and the “Integral construction of communities” led by the Council for Cultural Affairs, hoping by the participation of cultural art to congregate local citizens’ common consensus, reconstruct an identification of ego culture, awaken community to an environmental consciousness, and reform the unique of city value and the local trait. These methods include using the existed local and traditional culture characteristics and the historical humanism to connect with the local action, through theatrical performing forms, or holding large art festivals, to manifest the local’s participation, cohere the common consensus, and emphasize the importance of cluster’s identification. In the other hand, by participation in cultural art activities, allow the artistic culture able to blend into daily lives naturally, and through the unobtrusive and imperceptible changes and influences, cultivate the artistic capacity and disposition, increase the population of art appreciation, and enhance the creativity by a long-term project, so as to stimulate the artistic consumption and build up a foundation of industrial development by local culture. This study is taking the environmental theater of “Legend of anti-French” as a case to explore the complexion of local culture by the theatrical performing form built in the said theater. In the process to develop the local culture, is it able to effectively promote the local culture through the cultural art activities to form a mechanism for local citizens jointly to join in? This article, therefore, will use the manners of deep interview and sub-information analyses, by references retrospect, participation and observation, to generalize a comprehensively studied result and propose, hoping to outline the relationship between the theatrical activities of environmental theater and the localization of local culture for references of oncoming and interesting readers.