1980년대 동아쇼핑센터 소극장과 지역연극

Abstract

Donga Shopping Center is the department store which opened on Decemberof 1984. On opening it, they made a little theater in the 8th floor in orderto contribute to developing the drama of Daegu. The culture center was incharge of the management of this little theater. This paper is aimed to studythe characteristics of the little theater in Donga Shopping Center, dividingthree periods. The first period was from the opening in 1984 to May in 1986. During thisperiod, the direction of this little theater had been set up. That is, theyconsidered the security of show business the most important, as shown inselecting the works for opening performance. The second period was fromMay in 1985 when the Bidulgi Company, the theatrical company belonging tothis Center was founded to May in 1986 when the company was dispersed. This company belonging to the Center performed 9 works on stage and mostof them were the love story. During this period, they did not diverge muchfrom the basic standpoint that their top priority is the security of showbusiness. The time after May in 1986 is the third period. During this period,they concentrated on the rent and the performance of play for children afterthe breakup of the theatrical company. Since then this place had been usedas rent theater for commercial plays, weakening its influence on the localtheatrical field. The little theater of Donga Shopping Center made by commercial capitalin 1908s showed clearly the limitation of little theater. When the good causecontributing to the development of Daegu theatrical field was in conflict withthe policy seeking the commercial profits, the Center gave up the good cause. This result made the local theatrical people realize once again that this little theater without recognizing the theatrical experiments was a just commercialtheater with little scale.