재해 연극 축/언 의 기억과 전달의 의미 ―재해를 넘어 한일 화해를 담아―

Abstract

“祝／言(Celebration / Words)”, which premiered at the Aomori Museum of Art on October 11, 2013, is a play about the Great East Japan Earthquake. Japanese, Chinese and Korean theater directors cooperated and Japanese director Koji Hasegawa directed. Actors from Japan, China and South Korea have free conversations on the stage without an interpreter. Such an unrealistic production was the aim of Hasegawa. He found it impossible to communicate the situation of the disaster by language and described it as “the collapse of language”. Hasegawa recommends using non-verbal methods such as dance, music, and photography to accurately convey the victim’s pain to others. On the other hand, the meaning of “/” in “celebration / word” is that the past pain that Japan has given to South Korea and China has not been healed yet. Hasegawa argues that the relationship between Japan, China and South Korea can be improved by communicating the negative history of Japan through nonverbal communication. The play not only mourns the victims as beings of the past, but orders them to be recalled to the present by continuing to think about them. Hasegawa also said that when Japan’s negative history is summoned to the present and communication is made through nonverbal communication, a true reconciliation between Japan, China and South Korea can be achieved.