Exploring How Community-based Theatre Praxes in the Philippines and Taiwan Tackling Climate Change-related Issues and Providing Alternative Philosophies and Aesthetics for Climate Change-induced Problems 菲律賓與台灣的社區參與式劇場如何藉由戲劇創作展演面對由氣候變遷所引發的天然災害相關之議題探討及其相應之另類哲學與美學策略之探究分析

Abstract

Distances are created by geographical locations, fixed ideological cultural construction as well as social classes, race, nationalities and gender. However, facing the drastic climate change and continuous natural disasters brought by typhoons, flood and over-exploitation of natural resources in Asia, community theatre practitioners in the Philippines and Taiwan, located in the global south, tried to bridge the distances between countries and within their own societies. They reflect on and combat the impact caused by these challenges with community-based theatre praxes and musical praxes consecutively. 

This paper aims to investigate how community theatre practitioners in the Philippines and Taiwan employ 4 different devised theatre productions using community members’ voices and experiences, popular theatre techniques (such as musical forms), and indigenous rituals, dances and songs to reflect on the deterioration of the environment and climate change, as well as community disintegration. It also explores how we need to save ourselves through vigilant supervision of government development projects and community reunification by rebuilding consensus and communal cultural identity. The ancient Asian indigenous natural beliefs, mythology and Chinese philosophy of co-existing peacefully with nature are also employed to reflect and criticise the myth of progress of modern technology and development.

面對眾多由地理位置與文化建構所造成的社群及人群距離，在颱風、水災和自然資源過度耗損的亞洲情形尤為劇烈。因此，許多地處在全球南方位置的菲律賓和台灣的社區劇場工作者，開始嘗試減少各種距離，也藉由社區劇場反思許多氣候變遷之下所引發的環境天災挑戰，以及四齣劇場創作所提出對應的不同美學策略。

當中包括了城鄉差距的社區劇場音樂劇和鄉間與民眾共同一起創作發展的社區敘事劇場，這四齣戲運用了大量的大眾劇場策略以及原住民的祭典歌舞，也引用了原住民的自然哲學與亞洲的老莊思想中的環境自然倫理哲學，來提供當代氣候變遷下全球環境危機的另類面對及調整之道。另一方面，也提出藝術陪伴以及化解紛爭凝聚社區認同的美學策略，同時也協助災區的居民做心理韌性的建立與防災知識和策略的訓練與覺察，希望能夠協助居民面對未來的天然災害。