The Subjectivity Swung Between Tradition and Innovation: A Restudy of Contemporary Legend Theater,1986-2011

• Main Authors: Wu, Yue-lin, 吳岳霖
• Other Authors: Wang, Shih-pe
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45768755660085971176

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 中國文學系暨研究所 === 100 === This subject of this thesis is Contemporary Legend Theater; approaching the subject by reevaluating the work (play) of it and its position in the history of the Taiwan theater. I structure and organize the “fluctuation” of its plays through the angles of the history, the innovation and tradition of Contemporary Legend Theater. In addition, corresponding the development of contemporary musical theatre and the culture atmosphere of society, I capture the time value of Contemporary Legend Theater. In the creation of Contemporary Legend Theater, it develops two different routes, which are “innovation” and “tradition”, and this triggers me to reevaluate it and question: though this “fluctuation” in its creation, does it still find the “subjective” of its own. Furthermore, I reevaluate the value of the oriental theater through the reverse theory of Cross Culture Theater. The second chapter of this thesis will focus on “the innovation”, using its seven plays of Western Mixture, which shatter the subject of classical Chinese Opera, to summarize the difference experimental value of the plays to Contemporary Legend Theater itself. The third chapter analyzes two plays which resonate Wu Hsing-kuo, to review the art of him, in the other word, the value of traditional theater, through the innovation of the plays. On the other hand, the thesis states out the possibility of the birth of “New Format” by reviewing the “Tradition”. The core of the forth chapter focuses on the Chinese Plays Revise and the on stage re-performances of Classical Chinese Opera. I extract the “Legacy” of the value of classical Chinese Opera and gain the inheritance position of the Contemporary Legend Theater towards the history of contemporary theater, besides developing from the basis of “Tradition”. To sum up, although the thesis constructs with “Innovation” and “Tradition”, yet it takes the dualism out and finds out in fact, the fluctuation is actually the “Subjectivity” of Wu Hsing-kuo as the leader of the theater. Thus, Contemporary Legend Theater does have its value and meaning of the time, yet how to reevaluate the history of self-creation and give back the art in order to deepen the intention of the theater, instead of cut and paste of the form of the play. The possibility of the creating legacy of Contemporary Legend Theater may be finding the losing Subjectivity.