Male Heroines and Female Masters: Reconstructing Gender through Cross-gender Acting in Trans-Twelfth Night
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The aims of this article are to study the concept of gender and its embodiments in Trans-Twelfth Night, which was performed by Oh Dong-Shik in 2004 and 2014, and to highlight the changes of social consciousness and attitudes toward gender identity and its representation. By comparing the general perspectives of the artists and audiences on gender descriptions in the both productions, this paper observes how social mind on gender and sexuality has been changed in Korean culture. The director exchanges the gender of every character into its opposite side—from male to female and vice versa—to explore the moment of anxiety in the process of crossing over different gender roles. That is, the actors are asked to translate the gender described in Shakespeare’s text into their own gender with some specific ideas of current social and cultural context of Korea. This leads the audience to reconsider the concept of gender in different perspectives that ultimately reflect the current social attitudes to the subject of cross-gender and transvestite in general. Based on the analysis of the body actions and visual descriptions of different genders, interviews with the director, and reviews from the audience and critics, this article investigates how gender practice in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night can be translated and experimented to reflect social consciousness of gender and sexuality in the specific culture.
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The aims of this article are to study the concept of gender and its embodiments in Trans-Twelfth Night, which was performed by Oh Dong-Shik in 2004 and 2014, and to highlight the changes of social consciousness and attitudes toward gender identity and its representation. By comparing the general perspectives of the artists and audiences on gender descriptions in the both productions, this paper observes how social mind on gender and sexuality has been changed in Korean culture. The director exchanges the gender of every character into its opposite side—from male to female and vice versa—to explore the moment of anxiety in the process of crossing over different gender roles. That is, the actors are asked to translate the gender described in Shakespeare’s text into their own gender with some specific ideas of current social and cultural context of Korea. This leads the audience to reconsider the concept of gender in different perspectives that ultimately reflect the current social attitudes to the subject of cross-gender and transvestite in general. Based on the analysis of the body actions and visual descriptions of different genders, interviews with the director, and reviews from the audience and critics, this article investigates how gender practice in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night can be translated and experimented to reflect social consciousness of gender and sexuality in the specific culture.
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