THAI JA: WRITING SCRIPT FOR PANTOMIME PERFORMANCE THROUGH DEVISING THEATRE APPROACH
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The source of this research is from observing that Thai contemporary mimes are trying to develop their performances to communicate more on the serious subject; however, some of them mistook that if they portray too serious subject, Thai audiences who are appreciative of comedic form would lost their interests on the show. As a result, Thai Pantomime scripts have not been able to find the balancing serious social message and comedic form. Study and experiment on a pantomime script writing by Devising Theatre process leads the researcher to perceiving the cause of problems in Thai mimes. After cooperating on the experimental research which worked on the researchers implement, finally a new pantomime script was successfully composed with balancing comedic form and serious social message.
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