การขยายประสบการณ์ภายในของตัวละครด้วยวิธีปฏิบัติภาวนาทางพระพุทธศาสนา กรณีศึกษา ตัวละคร นาก จาก Land & Skin: The Ballad of Nak Phra Khanong

Abstract

 This practice as research in performing arts attemtps to articulate how the character’s inner experience can be magnified and created using Buddhist Theravada meditation-based approach. Focusing on performer’s work under the well-known role ‘Nak’ (Thai female ghost from Phra-Khanong), from the performance “Land & Skin: The ballad of Nak Phra Khanong” as case study. This is a Practice as Research, studying and analyzing through performer’s direct experience in her creative process as research methods. The performer as researcher using this meditation-based approach and Buddhist’s view on characteristics of ‘mind’ to understand character’s inner experience and to perform the role through being and experiencing the phenomena of mind. From character’s interpretation and creation to choices and decisions making in performing, the discussion focuses on reading Nak’s inner experience in connection with performer’s action occured on stage under this approach. The conclusion is that Meditation-based Approach allows the performer to deeply analyze the character’s inner experience and to be able to create and to live in the moment of experience better with a greater quality of presence.