The Community Participation in Creative Drama of “Thung Bang Khen”

Abstract

         This research on the community participation in creative drama of “Thung Bang Khen” aims to study the process of community participation in the production of “Thung Bang Khen” creative drama. The form of this research is qualitative research according to the qualitative data collected from research tools which are data from the study of relevant documents, data from in-depth interviews with key informants and data from observations of community activities and conditions in the area of Bang Khen, Bangkok.
          The results showed 1. participation process of the Bang Khen community in the production of the creative drama "Thung Bang Khen" has 4 levels of participation as follows: 1.1 Participation in decision making which are attending a meeting to present various matters necessary for the production of “Thung Bang Khen” creative drama which are important historical and sentimental value events of the local community, tales from legends of Bang Khen community and cultural capital of Lam Tad performance and Phra Mae Phosop (God of Rice) worship which is the culture that has been passed down from Bang Khen people’s way of life. 1.2 Participation in operations (implementation) that the community took part in expressing opinions from the script of creative play "Thung Bang Khen". 1.3 Participation in receiving benefits from creative drama "Thung Bang Khen" by organizing the performance, expectation or aim to happen in order to commemorate important history which cause unity in the community and can be extended to activities that benefit other communities and create this area for economic development. 1.4 Participation in evaluation that the community participated in the evaluation of creative drama “Thung Bang Khen” with the evaluation issues based on success of performance of the creative drama “Thung Bang Khen”. 2. production of the creative drama "Thung Bang Khen" is a drama creation by using the process of community participation in Bang Khen district. Therefore, there is a combination of musical drama, dance performance, folk performance (Lam Tad), with the aim to convey the story of Thung Bang Khen and the important arts and culture of Thung Bang Khen in order to create a sense of love and importance of the area with historical significance.