여성 노동자 문제를 다룬 연극과 다큐멘터리 극작술 - 연극 <미아리고개예술극장>(2018)을 중심으로

Abstract

This study aims to discuss cultural significance of the play that particularly covers ‘issues for working women’ among ‘plays dealing with labor issues’ emerging in 2010s. The play Miarigogae Theater of the Art serves as the research target and the study is to examine documentary dramaturgy realized in the piece. Featuring the actress Lee Ri and the producer Gu Ja-hye, the play Miarigogae Theater of the Art is characterized with theatrization of ‘their own story’, with their bodies and thinking as document. The act of theatrization of their lives through self-cultivation of putting their bodies and thinking autonomously into letters has significance of showing ‘agency.’ Theatrization of personal stories from the actress Lee Ri and the female producer Gu Ja-hye, their sexual identity, body and thinking in a linguistic form is named ‘verbatim dramaturgy for undoing gender’ herein. The notion of ‘verbatim dramaturgy for undoing gender’ in Miarigogae Theater of the Art can be referred to as metaphorical dramaturgy of what has been told by women but never been recorded and rather, hidden truth. Verbatim dramaturgy as to these two women artists is realization of politicality through private conversation and theatrical record of resistance while the stage where the play is performed serves as a forum of practice. In that sense, ‘verbatim dramaturgy for undoing gender’ can be called realization of affects, in other words, ‘the impetus to awaken experiences, memories and senses, demand ethical practice and bring about new changes’ on suppressed women.