<함평고구마>연구

Abstract

Hampyung Goguma was performed on the November, 1978 in Kwangju. Hampyung Goguma was co-created centering Park, Hyo-sun and performed in the event hall promoted by KCFM(Korea Catholic Farmer's Meeting). Its subject matter is on farmers living in Hampyung struggle against the Agricultural Cooperative which had deceived themselves. The three characteristics of Hampyung Goguma are as follows. First, it is the realistic theatre which treated the contradiction in agricultural policy in terms of common people. It dealt with how the farmers can win the struggle, which made audience feel a premonition of common people's victory. Second, the theatrical techniques of traditional theatre are well-harmonized with those of western theatre in this work. The former Nolye(merry making) and the latter Nolye are originated from traditional play and the technique of reporting happening comes from western theatre. The last, the dialect is used as the language in stage. This technique destroyed the dichotomy that standard language is culture/the dialect is unculture and showed that the living language itself can be the good language of stage. There had been other works which had treated the contradiction of agriculture society critically. But Hampyung Goguma considered the farmers as the subjects making changes and expressed the critical spirit in their terms. Therefore it is said that this work succeeded more greatly than any other theatres.