Gender Mask Language Thearter Stage

Mask can be found in many country folk, dance, art, is a kind of cultural symbol.The gender mask as a kind of performance form appeared in the drama is alwaysindulge in elaborating on the problem of the public. This "gender mask" theatricalperformances both in the Western theater or Chinese traditional drama stage have beenexisted, such as Chinese popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties operas "femaleemperor’s son-in-law","Mulan","Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai","Meng Lijun", thehostess male are men’s image appears on the stage, in the Japanese drama performancecan also drag phenomenon, while in India the dance drama and the drama also exist atthe same time as men and men dressed as women, and as the western Shakespeare"Twelfth Night","to the satisfaction of all" is also about Nvbannanzhuang phenomenon.In the Western Theater sex shows, drama actor usually masked form the original truecolours shade up, and with the help of the props were gender bending performance. Atthe same time, drama actor will also rely on the clothing, make-up, or drama expression,gesture, sound, movement and other body language to his actors gender coverage, andexaggerated highlight his drama roles of gender. In a word, as a mask, the gender maskdrama stage performance to sex essence actor cover, and in the cover at the same timealso will put some things another highlight expression comes out, so that the audiencecan through this drama stage masks, art aesthetic catch the drama behind, and promotethe socialization the collective revelry. Therefore, this thesis put the drama "genderperformance" and "Mask" factors together, through the research of the gender masklanguage on the drama on the stage, the drama performance of gender itself aesthetic,and expounds the traditional drama gender mask performance on modern drama"reverse string" performance and development, aesthetic value function, the gendermask mining drama performance in drama, and the gender mask performance foraesthetic inspiration of drama studies.This paper is divided into three parts. First of all, this paper tries to study thegender mask language drama on the stage, to explain the drama "the gender mask"definition, origin, performance theory, in order to deep mining stage "the gender mask"performance intention. Secondly, this paper analyzes the drama "the gender mask" form of expression and aesthetic, to explain the "contains the gender mask" show beauty.Finally, this paper elaborates the modern drama stage performances in the "gendermask" performance issues, in order to supplement the shortcomings in theory the gendermask language research community about the drama on the stage.