2023 SEOUL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL

“One day men started disappearing”

In the small regional town of Guju, men with violent tendencies suddenly start disappearing. The town's demographic gradually changes. There are women of various positions including mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, mothers and daughters, and natives and immigrants. Some women are angry about their missing grandfathers, fathers, and husbands, and some other women feel pity. In a city where men's places are vacant, will women on earth create a women's paradise freed from the patriarch? Women on Earth explores the ways in which the subject forms a relationship with the other. Some want to keep the long-established norms, while others want to break them. The work expands the worldview of the original novel to talk about the relationship between humans and animals. What will the women on earth face at the end of the story?

This is Guju, a city three to four hours away from Seoul by bus. Seong-yeon and Hyeong-geun are the newlyweds who live here. Seong-yeon teaches at a small private academy. Hyung-geun is a media artist. He goes to Seoul for an exhibition leaving Seongyeon for about a month. Seong-yeon comes back home after seeing Hyung-geun off. That day, a Filipino woman’s husband has suddenly disappeared while visiting his ancestor’s grave. White light slowly started to surround him, then all of sudden he disappeared into thin air. Some men have been reported missing after days of not returning home, and others have suddenly evaporated in front of people's eyes. In this town, men kept on disappearing all of sudden. People think that this is the work of an extraterrestrial life or a certain religious group, or that environmental pollution is the cause, and they create countless rumors.