“Routes in Light and Darkness”: An Experience of Collective Creation in Greece 希臘的一次集體創作經驗:《光暗中的軌跡》

Abstract

How important are some routes in our lives? A young theatre group delved into what Tarlington and Michaels (1995, as cited in Norris, 2016, p. 124) refer to as Playbuilding, seeking to explore the depths to which theatre, and specifically collective artistic creation, can negotiate relationships, obstacles and unexpected events in order to seek personal and social empowerment and change. One event, the rail disaster at Tempe on 28th February, 2023, the deadliest in Greek history, became the natural linchpin around which these processes converged. Through drama/ theatre education procedures and contemporary performing art forms, the performance Routes in Light and Darkness re-looked at the content, drew on insights and made new meanings. Both a meaning-making method and a (re)presentational form, the drama/theatre process led the group to data generation, analysis, interpretation, and representation of the issues that young people wished to discuss and transform in their society. The conclusions of the research highlight the contribution of performative methods of enquiry in helping young people, not only to share their personal experiences and problems in times of crisis but also, through collective creation, reveal and identify wider discourses that young people care and are concerned about. To empower the young people through critical thinking and active participation, the performative inquiry methods enable fostering of new social imaginaries for envisioning a more just and democratic world.

在我們的日常生活之中,某些軌跡到底有多重要?一個年輕劇場團體深入探討Tarlington及Michaels(1995年)提出的「建構戲劇」(“Playbuilding”,引自 Norris,2016,頁124)所指為何,旨在探索劇場,特別是集體藝術創作,在應對關係、障礙及意外事件之上所能觸及的深入程度,藉此尋求個人及社會層面的賦權與改變。2023年2月28日,希臘坦比發生該國史上傷亡最嚴重的鐵路事故,這宗事故自當成為上述種種過程聚焦的核心所在。透過戲劇/劇場教育程序及當代表演藝術形式,《光暗中的軌跡》這場表演再次檢視相關內容,汲取見解,賦予意義。戲劇/劇場過程既是創造意義的方法,亦是表達與呈現的方式,引領這個劇場團體生成、分析和詮釋數據,並且提出年輕人希望社會能夠討論及轉化的各種議題。這項研究結論強調,表演式探究方法能夠幫助年輕一代,讓他們不但可以分享個人面對危機時的經驗及困難,亦可以透過集體創作,展示和識別更多年輕人所在乎和關心的對話交流。表演式探究方法協助年輕人藉着批判思考及積極參與自強不息,有助建立全新的社會想像,構想一個更加公正民主的世界。