Wanasak Padungsestakit

Wanasak Theatre Troupe is the independent organization aimed to create, develop and integrate knowledge regarding to performing arts. Wanasak Theatre Troupe are dramatic performers, students and persons who interested in dramatic arts. Basically, in order to communicate with audiences in this globalized world, we intend to represent the contemporary performance arts in the way that is more innovative, more accessible, and more unique from Thai conventional arts while maintaining their core values. Based on our strong competence and skillful members, we are ready to present and promote our performances, which is mostly focused on Thai traditional performing arts, to not only people in the national, but also international level.

Format of Presentation: Oral presentation with power point, photos and video.

Sasiwipa Richardson, a contemporary play, is a part of a research called “A Study of the Process in Contemporary Dramatic Script Creation Developed from Lanna Folk Performing Arts: A Case Study of Sasiwipa Richardson” This research project aims at studying the strategies to construct the script and direct the contemporary dramatic play, which is based on interesting autobiographies of four female folk Lanna artists. In order to reach a point of being a great play, collaborations between folk Lanna artists, playwright, director (researcher) and musicians are applied to the process of production. Apart from the written script, Lanna Classical Poetry (Pleng Kao) and Lanna Classical Singing (Pleng Saw) developed from interview are used as an element not only to entertain audiences, but also to move the story forward. The protagonist, moreover, are the artist who owns a high competency in these fields herself. Therefore, this makes the play to be more realistic and touchable. Based on a situation of finding a balance between maintaining an authenticity of folk arts and becoming a contemporary to be more universal, the play has been developed to represent the aspects involved in freedom of expressions, freedom of mind and spirit. In addition, the idea of seeking admiration is provoked as the subject plays different roles in different dimensions such as being a rustic, a mistress, a ‘cheap’ artist.

This play not only emphasizes on the protagonist’s life, but also reflects picture of community, society and good intentions of the artist. This autobiographical play of Lanna artist is considered as a thought-provoking performance as it demonstrates how the artist dedicates her life to the art works, and how these art pieces lead to value of life. Audiences would perceive a great determined effort of modern Lanna artist in order to produce any piece of art. As a result, they could realize the significant of folk arts, understand culture and the way of living of the folk artist.

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