婦女參與一人一故事劇場對於母職實踐之轉化 ──以北投女巫劇團為例

Abstract

中文摘要 本文探討一人一故事劇場作為社區婦女的學習、實踐場域，經歷劇場自我探索、敘說、傾聽、扮演及由劇團所實踐出的行動，對於女性成長及日常生活母職實踐的影響。 將個別女性的生命歷程與母職處境放入社會文化的脈絡來看，探討母職處境的社會性質，並分析個人所處社會位置及文化環境影響下，所造就的母職實踐困境。在母職處境中的矛盾，引發婦女走出家庭私領域的行動。 婦女投入一人一故事劇場，被鼓勵自我敘說，得以重新回顧過往經驗，統整生命意義；並在以劇場遊戲為方法的培訓中，展開自我探索，參與即興表演，激發自發性創造力，體現創造性自我；並在同理心出發的積極傾聽及扮演他人的經驗中，培養多面相的思考角度。這些重要元素的作用，使得參與者有機會打破原有身體、表達、人際互動及認知的慣性，創造新的行為模式與環境模式，並在參與劇團所發展出的行動中，拓展了生活領域。 這是一人一故事劇場為女性帶來生命轉化的故事。

Abstract This thesis investigates the effects of Playback Theatre, as a field for women in community to carry out their learning and practices through the processes of self exploration, narrative, listening, performing and other acts took with the company, on female growth and daily motherhood practices. By putting individual life history and motherhood in the social cultural contexts, this thesis address the social characteristic of the situations of motherhood, and analyzes the plights of motherhood practices which caused by the social position and cultural surroundings of individual. It is the contradiction of the situations of motherhood that spur the actions of walking out private territory taken by these women. Within the field of Playback Theatre, the self-narratives of women are encouraged for them to be able to rethink and integrate past experiences and meanings. With the trainings through theatre games, these women explore themselves, participate in impromptu performances, stimulate spontaneous creativity and express creative selves. Their abilities of thinking from different viewpoints are developed with the experiences of empathetic listening and playing the others. All these make participants being able to break the original inertia of body, expression interaction and cognition, to create new patterns of behavior and expand the area of livings by participating company’s operations. This thesis is about the stories of females’ transformations occurred by Playback Theatre.