마티나 마이옥의 『생계비』에 나타난 인간적 유대의 간절함과 내면화

Abstract

The Cost of Living by Martyna Majok sheds light on the hybrid subjects' views of immigrant experiences, noble lies of the American dream, disabilities, and the working class, which reflect today's problematic social conditions. The play demonstrates that the theater is a platform for transitions and transformations of life with dramatic actions of affective labors such as attending to neighbors, not feeling lonely, not suffering from poverty, caring for one another, and going with them. The two disabled characters, their caretakes, and those suffering from desperate humanitarian crises such as loneliness and poverty practice the action of going with them to make supplication of human relations and new forms of life. The characters reach the internalization of human bondage. After recognizing who is actually caring for whom, they overcome their own loneliness regardless of the gulfs that disability and wealth place between them. All the characters including Eddie, who is the loneliest person in the world, become knowing subjects, and finally recognize that they are interconnected and interdependent. The vision of interconnection and interdependence makes their neighborhood a collaborative platform and presents a new epistemic virtue.