1970년대 여성 대학생의 연극 경험과 ‘여대생 관객’의 형성

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct the appearance of university student audiences, especially ‘women's students,’ who appeared in the theater-related pages in the 1970s, and their enjoyment of the theater. In terms of reconstructing the situation of the theater audience in the past based on fragmented data, this paper exposes essential limitations, but it was confirmed that the audience of ‘women's students’ was by no means a uniform group and enjoyed the theater for various reasons. Women also had the opportunity to go to university due to the expanded higher education after liberation, but women still had limited options when it came to choosing a major. Women's university education was inevitably affected not by individual women's choices, but by strategies in the process of investing limited financial resources in the home, or by social perception. As a result, female university students' majors focused on language and art. Language and art were directly or indirectly related to theater, and female university students were naturally forced to grow into the subject and audience of the theater. The situation in which female students perform theater in university was often deeply related to major learning. However, this did not stay in the dimension of boring learning, but expanded to the outside beyond the university wall, and in this process, ‘doing theater’ seems to have had a great influence on the formation of pride, bond, and belonging as a university student. Female university students who were familiar with the theater grew up to be active audiences in the 1970s. It is difficult to explain their motives for watching in a unified way and it seems that they ranged from products of preference for actors, reading taste, high-end hobbies to liberal arts learning. However, their viewing behavior had a strong active aspect and they made a movement not to watch low-quality performances, giving theater officials a sense of crisis.