金枝演社自1993年成立至今,由小劇團發展成一個中型劇團。至今已發表過數量可觀的作品。該劇團堅持以直率、深入民間底蘊的俚俗、簡單、訴諸情感的戲劇表演理念進行創作。該劇團發表了一系列融合歌仔戲胡撇仔戲元素的現代劇場作品,為臺灣劇場呈現了一番極具特色的戲劇視野。本文整理金枝演社的發展脈絡,聚焦於其一系列胡撇仔作品,分析其如何承接來自歌仔戲胡撇仔戲的表演元素及風格,轉化成自己的作品,形成自己的獨特表演形式。析論金枝演社藉由風格化的表演形式、以及轉化臺灣民俗質素、流行文化語彙所凝鑄的作品,如何與臺灣社會對話。本文進而從John Fiske大眾文化裡的過度性以及Susan Sontag的坎普(camp)美學著手,析論金枝演社所形塑出來的戲劇美學─胡撇仔美學風貌。
Founded in 1993 as a small theatre group, Golden Bough Theatre is now a medium sized company that boasts numerous plays. It holds fast to principles and ideas such as sincerity, simplicity, grass roots and emotional appeal. By infusing a number of its works of modern theatre with elements of o-pei-la of Taiwanese opera, it presents Taiwanese Theatre with a new perspective. The present investigation deals with the troupe’s evolution by focusing on its series of o-pei-la productions, analyzing its ways of transforming the elements and styles of o-pei-la into its own unique performing style. And how it enters into dialogue with the society by means of such style and works that transform and imbue with Taiwanese folklore and vocabulary of popular culture. Then, basing on John Fiske’s concept of excess of popular culture and Susan Sontag’s "Notes on Camp", the study examines Golden Bough Theatre’s dramatic aesthetics – that of o-pei-la.