ノダ マナブ   Noda Manabu
  野田 学
   所属   明治大学  文学部
   職種   専任教授
発表年月日 2011/08/11
発表テーマ Dramatic Intersubjectivity Called into Question: Oriza Hirata's Robot-/Android-Human Plays
会議名 IFTR Annual Conference Osaka 2011, Japan: "Tradition, Innovation, Community" (Osaka University)
主催者 International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR)
学会区分 国際学会
発表形式 口頭(一般)
単独共同区分 単独
概要 A western young woman, seemingly an incurable invalid poor girl, is almost motionless in an armchair. Her sole companion is an android girl, a hyperreal robot. The audience cannot help wondering who the invalid girl is talking to. Can we call the conversation on stage a dramatic dialogue between two subjective minds? Or is it more of a monologue of the girl, since the android is designed to capture the mental state of its owner and recite a poem accordingly out of her unfathomable memory? If so, isn't she talking to herself after all?
The paper I read is an intervention in response to Oriza Hirata's "robot-/android-theatre," inquiring the idea of intersubjectivity, and henceforth subjectivity itself that his theatrical pieces call into question. It discusses how Hirata's pieces destabilize the Szondian idea of modern drama by ironically using the classical (but beguiling) conflict-realization-reconciliation structure. Finally, the paper points out the limitation and possibility of Hirata's robot-/android-human theatre scheme.