The Taiwanese O-pei-la Aesthetics of Golden Bough Theatre

• Main Authors: TZU-HUA YEH, 葉子華
• Other Authors: 林于竝
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/we67m3

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 戲劇學系碩士班 === 98 === Founded in 1993 as a small theatre group, Golden Bough Theatre is now a medium sized company that boasts numerous plays. It holds fast to principles and ideas such as sincerity, simplicity, grass roots and emotional appeal. By infusing a number of its works of modern theatre with elements of o-pei-la of Taiwanese opera, it presents Taiwanese Theatre with a new perspective. The present investigation deals with the troupe’s evolution by focusing on its series of o-pei-la productions, analyzing its ways of transforming the elements and styles of o-pei-la into its own unique performing style. And how it enters into dialogue with the society by means of such style and works that transform and imbue with Taiwanese folklore and vocabulary of popular culture. Then, basing on John Fiske’s concept of excess of popular culture and Susan Sontag’s "Notes on Camp", the study examines Golden Bough Theatre’s dramatic aesthetics – that of o-pei-la.