The Creation of a Post-Traditional Drama: Chao Mae Soi Dok Mak

Abstract

       The aim of this research was to create a post-traditional drama about  Chao Mae Soi Dok Mak. These creative styles illustrating the creative principles of performance through studying and interpreting the characters were as follows:         1) objectives, 2) methods, 3) given situations, 4) communicating concepts, and 5) thoughts and feelings received by the characters. The analytical drama was composed of the following components: 1) characters, 2) relationships, 3) dramatic structures, 4) cognitive processes, and 5) the development of traditional and post-traditional dramas based on the concept of natural philosophy called “phenomenology”. This philosophy consists of three stages i.e., 1) attenuation, 2) creation, and 3) destruction. By supplementing, adding, and expelling parts of the original literary text, the following three stages of dramatic art creation were: 1) the processes of inventing something new that has never been done before, 2) connecting two or more existing things, and 3) adjusting the original idea to communicate the main points concisely and unified. The post-traditional drama Chao Mae Soi Dok Mak followed the northern chronicles Sai Nam Phueng God by presenting the issue of breaking the promise of King Sai Nam Phueng, and this caused the suicide of Phra Nang Soi Dok Mak. Regarding this, performances and costumes according to the ethnicities of the characters were designed. Moreover, music and singing with the language based on the characters’ ethnicity were designed to make communication easy to understand.