Abstract
Abstract This research paper examines the creative process used to connect young Muslims with their experience, their faith, and their community through a community-based performance. It also stresses the different levels of connections that resulted from the performance itself. The author sought to reconnect Barazan’yee, an important Arabic poetic chant, to people in the Bangkok Islamic community using tools from community theatre. The performance design process allowed them to tell their own story in relation to Bar’zanyee poetry in ways that are meaningful to them and their community, thus connecting their lives to the life of Prophet Muhammad. The first performance was in a public theatre resulted in a shift in structure and participation choices for audience in the second performance at a public theatre. Although both performances were conducted in a semi-ritualized environment of the Muslim community, the latter better engaged both the performers and audience.
Highlights
Thai Muslim communities have borrowed several forms of art and culture from Malay or Arabic culture
I performed in many theatre performances, but I have had many other roles in theatre-making, too
I decided to start with some problem that my community is facing, focusing on the role of Barazan’yee poetry in communal ceremonies
Summary
The above discussion of the situation and problems of Barazan’yee provided a problem space for me to develop a creative approach using tools from community theatre to make a performance using Barazan’yee. I started this process of developing a concept for making this performance in June 2018 based on a key idea centered on two key points. I started this process of developing a concept for making this performance in June 2018 based on a key idea centered on two key points This performance being devised could allow people to experience the rich meanings of Barazan’yee. I thought that theatre tools could be used to help reconnect people and to meaningfully interact with the Barazan’yee poem This performance project permits participants to convey their stories in relation to Barazan’yee verses. We can engage his life and use it as a guide for our own lives, in part by relating our own life stories to the life story of the Prophet Using these two points as a framework for this project, I started to work with young people who were students at the Islamic center in my community in Bangkok. Midam this team of Barazan’yee singers for the project instead of the young students from my local community
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