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Dramatization Style of Narrative Information in the Barrier-free Performance ―Focused on the Musical Drama, Hap‐Che

  • The Journal of Korean drama and theatre
  • 2022, (77), pp.93-125
  • DOI : 10.17938/tjkdat.2022..77.93
  • Publisher : The Learned Society Of Korean Drama And Theatre
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Received : November 1, 2022
  • Accepted : December 19, 2022
  • Published : December 31, 2022

Shin, Hongju 1

1한성대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

In the existing barrier‐free performances, subtitles, sign language, and audio commentary are all meta texts, which produce the alienation effect to some degree. Hap‐Che(2022), which claims to be a barrier‐free musical play, dramatizes sign language and audio commentary as part of the performance to increase the audience's immersion. Sign language interpretation is dramatized through double events, while voice interpretation through the personification of the narrator. In the double event, a sign language interpreter on stage shares choreography and acting with the musical actor, which allows the audience to experience synesthetic transference. Also, the sense of unity between the actor and the interpreter is realized through ideographs such as emblematic images or symbols that epitomize central narrative information. On the other hand, the voice commentary is dramatized in a way that the narrator personified as a radio DJ describes the stage space, events, and the gestures and psychology of the characters from an omniscient point of view. The intermediary nature of the original novel and the musical play, through the competition between textuality inherent in voice commentary and intermediality, provides a unique aesthetic experience that cannot be reduced to visual information. Hap‐Che is significant in that it expands artistic expression by dramatizing narrative information for the disabled.

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