Esiintyjäpersoona
Populaarin jälkiä 2000-luvun teatterinäyttämöllä
Abstract
It has been argued that in postmodern performance and postdramatic theatre, the performance persona has taken the place of the character played by the actor. Neither are the popular forms of performance and their discontinuous dramaturgy based on dramatic character. In this article, I discuss the concept and the practice of performance persona and shed light on how the term is connected to the hundreds of years’ history in which drama theatre and popular theatre have been intertwined. I also explore the concept of character as it is problematised by the theatre’s modernists. After that, I analyse the performership of Oblivia performance group through the concept of performance persona by tracing the popular influences, especially the act of commenting, in the relationship between the performer and the performed. Finally, I articulate what kinds of forms, meanings and functions, different from modernism’s aim, the act of gestural commenting gets in the performership of the twenty-first century’s stage.
