2022 SEOUL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL

A Story of an actress in 40s and a feminist assistant director in 20s seeing each other for the first time in an empty theater

 

Beom-sun is an actress with 12 years of experience; Eun-ho is a feminist assistant director who just started working in the field. The two are working on <Why Did Dan-i Throw Herself into the 20th Century?> created by the genius writer Yi Jin-o, who is also known as the father of contemporary drama in Korea. The day after Beom-sun messed up her lines and ruined the performance, Eun-ho and she arrive at the theater an hour before the call time when loud thunder and lightning hit them. And now, they can no longer go back to how things were before.

The play begins with a sentence that goes: some people realize what I am a little late. There are two women in the play. They arrive at the theater an hour before the call time, which was when all actors and staff were supposed to arrive. Until the call time, they talk with each other, discovering new senses towards one another.
Just because one makes a discovery and comes to a realization in his or her life, the environment surrounding him or her doesn’t change completely. Still, <Call Time> attempts to think about why we should ask who we are and find answers, and about the lives of people who have to tolerate the unchanging society with a growing number of questions.