『유리동물원』과 『생계비』에 나타난 비체의 미학적 변화를 통해 본 장애 재현과 무대 공간의 수행적 재배치

초록

This study examines the aesthetic reconfiguration of disability representation in contemporary theatre by tracing a shift from disability as a signifier to disability as materiality. Focusing on The Glass Menagerie and Cost of Living, the study argues that this shift is not merely representational but structural, involving a transformation in how body, space, and perception are organized on stage. In The Glass Menagerie, disability is mediated through the memory play form, which aestheticizes and stabilizes Laura’s impairment as a symbolic device. In contrast, Cost of Living foregrounds disability as lived materiality. Through scenes of care, the disabled body produces friction with space, reorganizing spatial relations and generating what can be understood as a performative event. Drawing on a relational reinterpretation of abjection alongside performance theory and spatial theory, this article demonstrates that disability, when treated as material condition rather than metaphor, destabilizes boundaries, disrupts perception, and produces affective ambivalence. Ultimately, the article proposes that contemporary theatre stages a fundamental shift in aesthetic logic from representing meaning to enacting material relations, where the disabled body becomes a site that reconfigures space, relationality, and spectatorship.

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