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The Narrative Reconstruction of the Anteroom in Performance Venues- Focusing on the Plot Structure of the Audience's Transitional Experience

  • Journal of Popular Narrative
  • 2026, 32(3), pp.357~394
  • DOI : 10.18856/jpn.2026.32.3.010
  • Publisher : The Association of Popular Narrative
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : September 5, 2026
  • Accepted : October 14, 2026
  • Published : October 31, 2026

Seo Jeong Hwan 1

1부산대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to reinterpret the anteroom (前室) of a performance venue not as a mere physical buffer between the lobby and the auditorium, but as a narrative place in which audience members organize and complete their own transition as a story. Whereas previous studies of performance venue space have centered on the stage, the auditorium, and the lobby, this study turns to the relatively overlooked anteroom and seeks to identify the narrative experience audiences construct as they pass through it, along with its plot structure. To this end, the study adopts Jacques Derrida's deconstruction, Edward Relph's theory of place, and Michel de Certeau's concept of spatial practice as its theoretical framework. The anteroom is an undecided place in which the binary boundary between lobby and auditorium has not yet been fixed; it is, in other words, a space where "spatial différance" occurs. At this point, Derrida's emphasis on the deferral of fixed meaning and Relph's emphasis on a stable sense of place formed through sensory and emotional bonds appear to be in conflict. This study reconstructs that tension as a sequential process through de Certeau's concept of pedestrian practice. Through the act of physically walking through this space, the undecided place is activated as a story, and in that process the relational authenticity Relph describes is retrospectively condensed. An analysis of domestic and international performance venues shows that the transitional narrative audiences construct in the anteroom can be interpreted as a plot structure that moves from departure from the lobby (exposition), through sensory attunement (rising action) and the condensation of silence and anticipation (climax), to emotional resolution in the "post-room" (後室) (denouement). In particular, the concept of the post-room newly proposed in this study shows that a space physically identical to the anteroom functions as the conclusion of the narrative when traversed in the temporal direction of exit. The study further suggests that cases in which the anteroom is omitted, extended, or mediatized can be reinterpreted through what de Certeau calls the rhetoric of walking. By recasting the anteroom, long regarded as a trivial space within the performance venue, as a stage for narrative practice, this study offers a theoretical foundation for a narratological approach to space.

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