Transforming Motherhood Practice Through Playback Theatre： a Case Study of Beitou Patauw theatre
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Fang, Tsai-Jung
Abstract
Abstracthis thesis investigates the effects of Playback Theatre, as a field for women in community to carry out their learning and practices through the processes of self exploration, narrative, listening, performing and other acts took with the company, on female growth and daily motherhood practices.y putting individual life history and motherhood in the social cultural contexts, this thesis address the social characteristic of the situations of motherhood, and analyzes the plights of motherhood practices which caused by the social position and cultural surroundings of individual. It is the contradiction of the situations of motherhood that spur the actions of walking out private territory taken by these women.ithin the field of Playback Theatre, the self-narratives of women are encouraged for them to be able to rethink and integrate past experiences and meanings. With the trainings through theatre games, these women explore themselves, participate in impromptu performances, stimulate spontaneous creativity and express creative selves. Their abilities of thinking from different viewpoints are developed with the experiences of empathetic listening and playing the others. All these make participants being able to break the original inertia of body, expression interaction and cognition, to create new patterns of behavior and expand the area of livings by participating company’s operations. his thesis is about the stories of females’ transformations occurred by Playback Theatre.
Subjects
Playback Theatre
motherhood
people’s theater
narrative research
narrative
stories
improvisation
empathy
Type
thesis
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