The Masterpiece: A solo performance to reveal the oppressed character from a discourse of perfection

Abstract

This research article is a result of knowledge analysis from practicing research entitled The Masterpiece (a solo performance) which aimed to create a play script and perform a solo performance. The theory of myth and discourse, video recording, films, play scripts were collected as research data for scriptwriting. The performance structure was inspired and interpreted from a book called The Missing Piece Meets the Big O originally by Shel Silverstein, and Thai translated by Pla Srirung, which used as a script creating and solo performed by Teerapat Nakpansue under the directing of Sanchai Uaesilapa. The study found that semiotic and metaphor were used in a monologue play script. The message of the story was learning how to accept life, and how to grow in own way by using the issue of perfect- being expectation discourse, and others' success through the character named Emma Taylor who is a 40-year old male with a female appearance. The script is characterized as collage technic, the solo performance using the technic and method of queer theater to critic and parody the society through the perspective of homosexual. The improvisation, memory recall, and finding of the meaning and subtext technics were used to approach to be the character. The new style of the presentation consists of costume, space, scene, light, and sound along the strong directing was tried out to deliver a message, and making the learning process to audiences