청소년극에 나타난 젠더의 양상과 의미

Abstract

This article aimed to investigate recent adolescent drama dealing with gender. The appearance of gender as a new subject and material in adolescent drama which strongly focused on the material side before shows that the gender issue is also important in adolescent. The works analyzed in this article are trying to put the gender issue on the center, not simply regarding it as one of materials. For examples, those are <Desirable adolescent>, <XXLLeotard Anna Sui hand mirror>, <Loving You>, <Change drug>, <Middle school students> (Witer/director: O-jin Lee), <Go back>, <We're suitably close>, etc. All except <Desirable adolescent> in 2014 have the common characteristic that they are original play made in 2017. The viewpoint looking at the gender in adolescent drama is that the aspect of feminism emphasizing on female issue with acceptance of the expanded gender concept which is represented by Judith Burtler is also necessary in that concept. Because 2016 is the year when the issue of feminism was socially standing out, the difference on understanding of gender emerged around that period and it affected the works made in 2017 in both direct and indirect ways. Therefore, the producer's preception of gender had an great impact on the 2017 works. The ways of production such as the works of national drama company, the co-works of pre-existing drama company and art center, the works of young art company supported by Seoul city government were diverse. In addition, the methods dealing with the gender in drama were relatively various. We could examine all the methods to view sexual identity, sexual preference and female students through them. The effort to reflect the aspect of gender expansion on drama led to the positive effect, whereas we also could find the case in which the method to view female students remained in the old way. The completeness of drama was higher in the works of national drama company or art center which has the stable producing system. But, the practical effects of approaching way for gender was not proportional to the stability of producing system because it is more important in the process of production that the gender issue should be free from the previous norm considering that it is not fixed.