HADDANGSE
Liu Zhenyun’s novel tells the stories of people with various last names, jobs, backgrounds and looks before and after New China was built. The novel was adapted by Mou Sen into <A Word that Replaces Ten Thousand Words>, which consists of two acts and 24 scenes. The first act was performed at the 2021 Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF) and the second is to be showcased at the 2022 SPAF. Good talkers, bad talkers and the quiet come together, portraying our current tragedies with metaphors and humor.
Synopsis
Gyo-ryeong gets kidnapped and is sold to the Cho family in Simwon, Sanseo, taking the name Cho Cheong-a. She marries Wu Seo-do and has three boys and a girl. However, second son Woo Ae-guk’s life is full of hardships. After his discharge from the military, Ae-guk marries a girl named Bang Yeo-na; however, Ae-guk lives a nomadic life after she cheats on him. Ae-guk returns home upon the news of his mother’s illness and remembers his grandfather whom she has always missed. Ae-guk leaves for Yeonjin to find his grandfather Oh Mo-se.
The play throws unpredictable twists and turns just like our lives do, provoking the audience to ask who they are, where they come from and where they are headed.
윤시중
Yoon Si-joong is a director who presents new experiences to the audience by blurring the border between directing and stage art. Yoon’s plays are filled with not narratives, but with various languages. For Yoon, producing a play is both a process of creating a language and a game. Language can’t be written and spoken by just one person; it is completed when the director and participants work together. In his plays, actors stand in the center of the stage, joined by theatrical scenery, costumes and objets. All these generate more intense energy, resonating with the audience deeply.
Yoon’s works include <A Word that Replaces Ten Thousand Words>(2021), <Time Painter>(2020), <Dongyang Theater 2020>(2020), <Then, Byeon Hong-rye>(2018), <The Great Play>(2016), <Bird>(2013), <Brush>(2008), <Titus Andronicus>(2011), <Faust I+II>(2014) He won the Best 3 Theatrical Plays of the Year Award from the International Association of Theatre Critics-Korea in 2019 for <Then, Byeon Hong-rye>the Best 3 Theatrical Plays of the Year Award from the International Association of Theatre Critics-Korea in 2018 for <The Great Play>,and the Best New Director Award at the 48th Donga Drama Award for <Brush> in 2008.
Originator ｜ Liu Zhenyun
Dramatizer ｜ Mousen
Translation ｜ Sukyung Oh
Director ｜ Si-joong Yoon
Set Designer ｜ Hyunjin Do
Dramaturgy ｜ Okran Kim
Music ｜ So-yeon Park
Cast ｜ Sook-kyung Moon, Jane Kwon, Heedo Choi, Ebada Oh, Chae-yeon Kim, Eunbyul Koh, Sura Choi, Gwangsun Park, Seungtae Kim, Ji-young Kim, Hanwoo Park, Dong-woo Seo, Ho-chan Hwang, Yejin Kim
Haddangse produces unique plays and has received positive reviews from audience of various backgrounds. They have also received drama awards and awards for directing and acting at domestic and international theater festivals.
The name of the theater has two meanings. The first meaning of “from the sky (haneul) to the ground (ttang), going strong (sege)” implies their strong mindset, while the second meaning of “looking up to the sky (haneul), looking down on the ground (ttang) and viewing the world (sesang) implies their way of reasoning, which they have built through working with communities and base their production on.
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