Thai Dramatic Arts Creating “Chuy Chay Phanthurat”

Abstract

           Objective of the research Thai Dramatic Arts Creating “Chuy Chay Phanthurat” is for studying a history and characteristic of the character Phathurat in order to create the new series of Thai classical dance called Chuy Chay Phanthurat by investigating from involved research papers. It is a qualitative research in the form of the new invented Thai Dramatic Arts series by means of using knowlegdes which received from analysing, synthesising and concluding the papers material, and then, it is represented as the research paper.
          As the results, it is found that, inspirations of creating the performing posture of the project of
Thai Dramatic Arts Creating “Chuy Chay Phanthurat” are from the researcher’s performing experiences
and interviewing some national artists and experts. Principle of creating the dancing posture consists of two things as follow: 1. interpreting from the drama play by means of following the dialogue, songs and
melodies 2. adapting from a general fundamental Thai traditional dance and a specific skill of Yaksa (Titan)
in the form of dancing by interpreting the lyrics, and dancing by following the melody of a Thai traditional
music Nah-Part. From following concepts as mentioned, researcher creates the new performance which
is characteristically, but still conserves the tradition of the classical performance Chuy Chay. The new
performance represents the gentleness and delicacy, mixing with the strongness in the style of a blue
blooded lady titan who is originally from the titan royalty. The performance will be accompanied by Thai
traditional musical ensemble Pi-Part Mai Khaeng. Performer will dress a standard Yaksa costume with a
tiara and also painted on the face as the tradition of the performance Rakorn Nork.