바리데기 신화의 연극 공연으로의 변용과 그 의미 - 연극 <바리, 서천 꽃그늘 아래>를 중심으로 -

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to conduct a comparative study on the myth of Baridegi and its dramatic transformation, <Bari, Under the Flower Shade of a Tree at Seocheon>, played by a drama company named Jangjabeonduk, and to find out their meanings. Basically, <Bari, Under the Flower Shade of a Tree at Seocheon> made an attempt to interact with a large audience by transforming itself into a play conforming to traditional epics, which is possible because there are cultural veins and contexts shared by a group based on it. In addition, the genre transformation within such contexts can provide researchers with a more extended idea to study and interpret the myth of Baridegi. Baridegi teaches us that life and death cannot be divided by a dichotomy of view, that there exists holiness in the mind of all humans, and that the methodology of mature reconciliation and forgiveness can cure the modern society full of anger and revenge, showing all human beings have to share it as a principle of healing. Furthermore, this is extending its meanings more and more through its transformation into the play, trying to get closer to general audience by stimulating their universal sensitivity with such tools as free epic arrangement, harmony between the tradition of forms and images and modern times, the expression of symbolization using dolls and objets, etc. In modern times, numerous forms of tradition-based modern transformations lie scattered around us, and further performance products are changing themselves into various different looks. However, an indiscrete modern interpretation ignoring its basis can distort the tradition and creative excellence. Finally, it can be concluded that <Bari, Under the Flower Shade of a Tree at Seochoen>, which recreated the myth of Baridegi in order to communicate with the general audience in modern times, not damaging the traditional philosophy and esthetics of the myth of Baridegi, has a considerable meaning that it proposes the direction of modern transformations of tradition.