‘자기 이야기하기’ 연극에 나타나는 디에게시스의 연기 수행방식 –라비 므루에(Rabih Mroué)의 <구름을 타고(Riding on a Cloud)>를 중심으로

Abstract

This study aims to analyze so-called diegesis-acting of performers in contemporary autobiographical theatre as a new re-presentational strategy. As basically leaning on narrative discours and Plato's philosophy, I come to regard the diegesis, in broad perspective, as a performative concept that synthetically includes from narration, movement, gesture, situation to performing atmosphere. Since 1970s, performances in which performers perform themselves, through performing stories from their lives, have been ubiquitous especially in performance art area. Many artists during the period tried to draw their resources from themselves and their lives and reflect their own image. However, the way of performing oneself has been quite changed in terms of contemporary autobiographical theatre. The performers, often amateurs, ready-made or experts in daily life, stop to reflect and represent their memories, events and daily lives. Instead, they tend to expose themselves and appear as themselves through postdramatic theatrical strategies: I regard, one of them is to adopt diegesis-acting, that is, delivering a narration or text from the third person in objective perspective, giving off atmospheres just like speech, presentation, lecture and so on. This study intends to analyze the effects of diegesis-acting with a particular example of Rabih Mroué’s Riding on a Cloud, which is recently staged in Korea, as a new way of fictionalization and detachment. By studying so, I would also like to contribute to broaden the spectrum of postdramatic acting and suggest a possible analytical model of diegesis beyond the aesthetic structure of representation/presentation and ideas of performance study such as materiality, physicality, image etc.