閔丙徽 演劇 비평 연구

Abstract

In order to understand comprehensively Korea Artista Proleta Federatio's drama movement, one needs to study the KAPF's various arguments in relation with the KAPF organization and its participants. Among KAPF's members and literary and political arguments, this paper is focused on the dramatic theory of Min, Byeong-hwi who have had heated debates with KAPF drama club members at its second turn and made efforts to popularize the proletarian dramas. While his contemporary drama popularization movement partici- pants criticized KAPF's attitudes and the inefficiency, Min proposed concretely the ways in which KAPF would overcome the oppression of Japanese imperialism and give a successful performance. Criticizing KAPF drama club's exclusive and intellectual tendency, its inefficient structure, the absence of methodology to vitalize its drama movement and its absence of political power to organize efficiently the professional theatrical companies in Seoul and the provinces, he demanded KAPF drama club to turn their professional organization into the popular one which could embrace laborers and farmers. Min's criticism on KAPF's drama club is a part of his exploration to popularize the proletarian dramas. He criticized the established big theatre's performance and proposed to give traveling performances. His proposal of traveling small theatre activities can be regarded as the ways in which KAPF made efforts to give the drama performance against the Japanese imperialism's oppression and overcome the proletarian drama's stagnation as well as to carry out its mission as a part of a proletariat revolution.