The Qibla—a never-ending story of migration, runaway, and pilgrimage

IF 0.3 3区 艺术学 0 THEATER
Tsu-Chung Su
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ABSTRACT The Qibla, written by the female playwright Wan-Ting Shen, is the title of the Best Play of the 2015 Taiwan Literature Award. This play, directed by Dong-Ning Hsieh, Artistic Director of Voleur du Feu Theatre, had its premiere in 2017. In her play, Shen portrays the interaction between a live-in foreign caregiver called Nadie and a Granny who suffers from Alzheimer and lives in the countryside. The purpose of this paper is to examine the three major motifs ─ migration, runaway, and pilgrimage ─ that are central to the play’s textuality and theatricality. The script and performance analysis of The Qibla are highlighted while a socio-economic and political background regarding the foreign migrant workers is provided so as to give the play a proper context. Since the three main characters, Nadie, Granny, and V-Rod, are all female subalterns who live on the margin of a society called the ‘Ocean State,’ this paper attempts to employ an anti-essentialist viewpoint derived from subaltern studies to investigate the social and biopolitical issues exposed in the play. In conjunction with this viewpoint, this paper intends to adopt the Brechtian reading to interrogate Hsieh’s directing approach and Shen’s dramaturgy.
qibla是一个关于移民,逃亡和朝圣的永无止境的故事
女剧作家沈婉婷的《齐布拉》获得2015年台湾文学奖最佳剧本奖。此剧由自由剧场艺术总监谢东宁导演,于2017年首演。在她的剧本中,沈刻画了一位名叫Nadie的住家外籍护工和一位住在农村的老年痴呆症患者之间的互动。本文的目的是考察三个主要主题──迁移、逃跑和朝圣──这三个主题是该剧的文本性和戏剧性的核心。重点对《齐布拉》的剧本和表演进行分析,并提供有关外来务工人员的社会经济和政治背景,使该剧具有适当的语境。由于三个主要人物Nadie、Granny和V-Rod都是生活在一个被称为“海洋国家”的社会边缘的女性次等人,本文试图采用源自次等研究的反本质主义观点来调查剧中暴露的社会和生物政治问题。结合这一观点,本文拟采用布莱希特式的阅读方式,对谢家华的导演手法和沈从文的戏剧手法进行探讨。
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