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Experimental Theater Narrative Time And Space Study

Posted on:2007-05-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S S CaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360182480243Subject:Drama
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Practical drama is a kind of modern form of drama which aims to find some new ways to realize the creation of the new drama forms in the 1980s. The appearance of "the crisis of drama" put them who are studying the dramas into the pondering whether they should find some new ways, then the practical drama comes into being.They have made a lot of probes, creations and practice in many aspects, such as drama concepts, drama creation, methods of art, methods of playing and the themes of dramas, then the revolutionary change has happened in the playing form of the Chinese drama. The probe forth of the practical drama is mainly embodied in the creation of form. The creation of the practical drama is in the changing of narrating words, narrating methods and the tactics. The core of the probe is the revolution of the time and the space of narrating.Practical drama is affected by many kinds of the modern drama styles and the modern drama theories in the west, especially the theory of Bertolt Brecht. They focus on the traditional form of drama, from which they can learn the art spirit and the art principles, and they can find the character of narrating in the drama again. They break though the classic mode of traditional drama which is composed by the drama of "the Ibsen's style" and the Stanislavski's playing system. With the narrator's appearance, the time and the space of the stage narrating get the freedom in a large extent, the different time and space can transform freely. The time and space of drama stage is set free, and the narrating arrangement becomes abundantly. Almost at the same time, the simultaneity of the time and space, the overlap of the time and space and the symbolized state of the time and space are tuning up on the stage sequentially. As the usage of such methods as "the parallel montage" and "the intersecting montage", the combination of the time and space of the drama and the films is embodied. As a result, the relationship between the player and the audience has changed, the appreciation of the drama becomes a more active process of communication.While the probe of the practical drama focuses on the creation of the forms, so there is a bad trend to decline to "emphasis on form". They cannot absorb the essence from the forms of the foreign drama and the Chinese traditional drama totally. So there is the severe misreading in the understanding of the theory of Bertolt Brecht. They misuse the new structure of the time and space, so the creation of the time and space in the stage drama isn't fully embodied. Practical drama has the trend of emotional tending but not the reasonable tending, so the structure turns to be loose andlacks attraction. The drama can be easily interrupted, and the effect of the separating is used. The characters changes frequently, and there are many over-philosophic content in dramas. All these problems reduce the attraction and the expression of art itself. But the creation and the revolution of the time and space supply for the drama a new form to follow, making the drama stage more lively, so it helps the development of the drama. This paper uses the theory of narrating, stating my ideas from the time and space of practical drama. From the investigation of the expressional function, purposes, methods and the effect it realized, trying to give the evaluation and the analysis toward the probe, so it can provide the theory conclusion and the experience in practical for others.
Keywords/Search Tags:Narrating time and space, Narrator, Drama Montage, The time and space of theatre
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