Maurice Maeterlinck’s ‘The Tragic in Daily Life’: a video essay

This video essay offers a methodology aimed at making historical figures from theatre and performance relevant to contemporary studies, practice, and training. It uses Maurice Maeterlinck’s essay ‘The Tragedy in Daily Life’ as a case-study to demonstrate how this contemporaneity is achieved by i) using fragments from the essay as a stimulus for generating performance material and (ii) transforming a key concept, idea, or theme into an instance of actor training. An accompanying Research Statement contextualises the project.

本视频论文（video essay）提出一套系统性方法论，旨在推动戏剧与表演领域的历史人物研究适配当代学术研究、行业实践与演员培养的需求。本研究以莫里斯·梅特林克（Maurice Maeterlinck）的《日常生活中的悲剧》（*The Tragedy in Daily Life*）为案例，阐释如何通过以下两种路径实现这种当代适配性：其一，提取该论文的片段作为创作灵感，生成表演素材；其二，将核心概念、观点或主题转化为演员训练的实践案例。随附的研究陈述（Research Statement）为该项目提供了完整的背景阐释与语境说明。