การสร้างสรรค์การแสดงร่วมสมัยเพื่อสื่อสารปรัชญา นิเวศวิทยาแนวลึก จากกวีนิพนธ์ของ รพินทรนาถ ฐากูร

Abstract

This creative research is to adapt the Rabindranath Tagore's prose and poetry to contemporary performance creation for communication of deep ecology philosophy to find out the attitudes among the experts and audiences and to study the audience's perception and attitudes toward deep ecology philosophy. The data is collected from the post-performance discussion and questionnaire. There are 27 participants in the discussion session and 76 respondents for the questionnaire.

The creation of contemporary performance ‘Oh Loge Tee Rak’ (Earth) started from October 2011 to May 2012. It consists of several pieces of poetry such as Earth composed in 1936, that are incorporated with ‘Gitanjali' and “Stray birds' book. The essence of this performance is to confirm the facts that human actions destroy the earth's solution in significant degree and that all of the human will unavoidably face its effects in the end.

The performance features movement and dance while the poetry is read. The performers include men and women that represent mankind. There is no time nor place mentioned in the show which means it could happen anywhere and anytime on earth. The choreography is aimed at portraying specific meanings and messages that reflect the PauS particular part of that poetry.

It is indicated that the audiences have good attitudes towards the components of the performance with the first three highest satisfaction being (1) the background music (2) the performers and the lighting (3) the theme (< = 4.39, 4.25/ S.D. = 0.68, 4.25/ S.D. = 0.71 and 4.24 in respective order). According to the post-performance discussion, it is found that the poetry reading becomes more interesting. The audiences, especially the new generation views that the performances help them comprehend the essence of the poetry more easily. Besides, the essence of the poetry leads to more understanding of the current situations such as the disasters that are caused by human.

According to the research, it is also found that the perception towards deep ecology philosophy is considered high. The first three ideas that have highest averaged score are (1) life on earth is as small as dust (2) all the lives are related in the earth's dynamic and (3) when human harms theearth, the earth also does the same thing to human, with the averaged score of 4.29, 4.28 and 4.25 successively. The other three interesting ideas include the natural disaster is a tool to neutralize the earth, the earth’s integrity is the co-existence of the positives and the negatives and the greed in human leads to exploitation of everything with the averaged score of 4.22, 4.21 and 4.20 respectively.