2010년대 노동문제를 다룬 연극의 실재(the real) 구현 방식과 정치성 －<자본(Das Kapital):We are the 99%!>(2019)과 <노동풍경1:실업>(2020)을 중심으로－

Abstract

This thesis focuses on theatrical performances dealing with labor issues that formed a new trend in the Korean theater in the 2010s, and discusses the realization method and political significance in these works. The 21st century's 'labor theater' is a 'multitude labor theater' that includes even the affective labor of immaterial workers, and discusses the new documentary theater, which is the main method of labor theater in the 2010s. Jabon(Das Kapital): We are the 99%! and Labor Scenery 1: Unemployment from the '2019 Yeonwoo Stage Propaganda Series' were studied, and these two works seem to show different new documentary theater styles. However, in common, it was noteworthy as a work that embodies audience－participatory politics through the sensibility of the actors' bodies. These two works both use the verbatim method of documenting the language of workers, and embody politics through 'lecture performance' and 'performativity of quotation' respectively. The sensibility embodied in the bodies of the actors in these two works was a language－centered expression called 'lecture' and an emotional expression by 'executing quoted data', respectively. This expression was not the act of representing the play, but the actual story of the cast and Eastern and Western workers was woven together with fiction to realize the real. Due to this method, these two works primarily express the politics of staging the real of workers' labor exploitation. In addition, the cast realizes that they are also workers, shares the reality of labor exploitation, and demonstrates the politics of publicizing it with the audience, and expressing the critical mind as a worker who does acting labor through language and emotional sensitivity.