Abstract:
This research is the creative research integrating of creation process of ugly duckling the musical play for 13-24 years old teenagers based on the famous children novel of Hans Christian Andersen and Buddhist method in order to emphasis the value of life and give the public notice about fashion plastic surgery among Thai teenagers. As a result, there are 239 respondents for the questionnaire. Results of the research found that 1. The innovation of the ugly duckling play is composed of pre-production and the production and ultimately, the post production is the evaluation of audiences attitudes about this play which indicated that the audiences have good attitudes towards the components of the performance which the first three satisfaction being 1) the theme and dancing movement shared the equal average score of 4.2. 2) The actors 3) the songs with the average score of 4.1, 4.0 in respective order. As stated in the post-performance discussion and the interviewing, it found that the audiences give the perception of the ideas stated in the play is good and the first three ideas that have the highest average scores are 1) the play is understandable 2) the story is up to date and 3) the play gives the awareness of plastic surgery, with the average score of 4.3, 4.3, 4.2 respectively. Target audiences, under 13-18 years old show the positive attitude toward every element in the play and also shared the most favorite component of the play with the audience during age 19-22, which is the dancing movement with the average score of 4.5 and 4.1 respectively. 2. The ugly duckling play has an influence on the awareness attitude of the audiences toward plastic surgery and self-confident. These can be evaluated by the higher of self-satisfaction average scores after watching the play which before and after average score is 7.5 and 8.3 in respective order. The audiences agree with the perspective of 1) everyone has and must find their own specialty 2) we should find what is right for us not following the fashion 3) plastic surgery has both pros and cons with the average score of 99.6, 99.2 and 97.1 percentage successively. According to the interviewing, the musical play Ugly Duckling can be the TIE (Theatre-in-Education play) that the audiences can learn through the watching of the play and can also be the DIE (Drama- in-Education play) that the actors can learn by doing the play.