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Daily Life under State Violence: Interview with South Korean Playwright Yun Mi Hyun, Part 2

Posted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 9th Sep 2022 | Interview, Playwriting, South Korea, Theatre and Politics, Translation

To read Part 1 of this interview, click here. Nahm: Let’s talk now about Texas Aunt. I said...

Daily Life under State Violence: Interview with South Korean Playwright Yun Mi Hyun, Part 1

Posted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 8th Sep 2022 | Interview, Playwriting, South Korea, Theatre and Politics, Translation

Yun Mi Hyun is a playwright based in South Korea. After writing fiction and poetry in her early...

“Legend of The Waitress & The Robber” – A Korean American Cross Cultural Collaboration Makes it to New York City

Posted by Philippa Wehle | 1st Jun 2022 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, South Korea, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

The Legend of The Waitress & The Robber, a new musical theater piece by Renee Philippi, a...

“The Legend of the Waitress & the Robber”: World Premiere of NYC-Seoul Collaboration Inspired by Schiller and Hong Gildong

Posted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 21st May 2022 | Interview, New York, South Korea, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America

The Legend of The Waitress & The Robber is a collaboration between the Korean theatre...

The Need to Recycle Forms the Core of this Korean Non-Verbal Play

Posted by Gowri S | 17th Jul 2021 | Review, South Korea, Theatre for Young Audiences

Junk Clown, a Korean play for children, brings the concept of recycling to the table through mime....

Asian Adaptations of Shakespeare Today

Posted by Alexa Alice Joubin | 12th Jun 2021 | Adaptation, Essay, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea

During the AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) heritage month, let us explore the...

A Woman and an Immigrant, but Most of All, a Scientist: Musical “Marie Curie” Review

Posted by Hansol Oh | 13th Jan 2021 | Musical Theatre, Review, South Korea, Theatre and Science

Marie Curie, whose image as an unsmiling scientist wearing a high-necked, black dress has been...

Searching for the Origin of the Korean Wave: The Nanhee’s MIMAJI!

Posted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 1st Jan 2021 | Interview, Playwriting, South Korea

The Korean theatre company The Nanhee premiered its new production Mimaji!, written and directed...

Battle Of The Sexes In The Midst Of A Refugee Crisis In Korea: “Big Love” By Ets (Eye To Soul)

Posted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 25th Jun 2020 | Adaptation, Interview, South Korea

The Korean theatre company ETS, which is an acronym for Eye To Soul, staged Charles Mee’s Big Love...

Love, Labor, Loop: (Object’s) Life according to Geumhyung Jeong

Posted by Eylül Fidan Akıncı | 7th Apr 2020 | Essay, Puppetry, South Korea, Transmedia

The history of puppetry is full of supernatural bodies on stage that dramatically or subtextually...

Eunkyung Jeong Elucidates Enlightenment in Her Autobiographical Installation

Posted by Rathsaran Sireekan | 27th Oct 2019 | Review, South Korea, Theatre and Gender

The Political Self of Beauty South Korean artist Eunkyung Jeong’s interdisciplinary work at...

“Self Life Drawing” – Eunkyung Jeong

Posted by Rathsaran Sireekan | 23rd Sep 2019 | Belgium, Festivals, Review, South Korea, Theatre and Politics

The political self of beauty South Korean artist Eunkyung Jeong’s interdisciplinary work at...

Entering “Yellow Inn”: A Conversation Between the Playwright and Translator, Part 2

Posted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 15th Sep 2019 | Adaptation, Interview, Playwriting, South Korea, Theatre and Politics, Translation

To read Part 1 of this interview, click here. TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION For the Illinois State...

Entering “Yellow Inn”: A Conversation Between the Playwright and Translator, Part 1

Posted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 15th Sep 2019 | Adaptation, Interview, Playwriting, South Korea, Theatre and Politics, Translation

Interview and translation by Kee-Yoon Nahm with contributions from Laura Gisondi. Lee Kang-baek is...

Navigating Korea and America: Meet Hansol Jung, Playwright of “Wild Goose Dreams” and “Cardboard Piano”

Posted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 14th Feb 2019 | Interview, Playwriting, South Korea

Hansol Jung is a playwright and director from South Korea. Her plays include Wild Goose Dreams (La...

Thinking Out Loud

Posted by Jasper Delbecke and Sébastien Hendrickx | 18th Jan 2019 | Essay, South Korea, Transmedia

Essayisting Figures On Stage The influence of the essay as a means of expression has long reached...

Korean Theatre at The Edinburgh Fringe 2018: “About Lady White Fox with Nine Tales . . .”

Posted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 18th Aug 2018 | Adaptation, Festivals, Interview, South Korea

Korean theatre company YVUA ARTS makes their Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut with About Lady White...

“Deep Present” – Jisun Kim Stages Four Artificial Intelligences

Posted by Claire Swyzen | 16th Jun 2018 | Directing, Review, South Korea, Transmedia

A shallow learning-play In Deep Present (2018) Seoul-based director Jisun Kim stages four...

Following The #MeToo Movement In Korean Theatre

Posted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 20th May 2018 | Interview, South Korea, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics

In the past few months, the Korean theatre scene has been under intense public scrutiny as...

Electra Takes Revenge into Her Own Hands

Posted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 11th May 2018 | Adaptation, Review, South Korea

In Han Tae-sook’s Electra (LG Arts Center, April 26–May 5, 2018), the mourning daughter doesn’t...

South Korea

Daily Life under State Violence: Interview with South Korean Playwright Yun Mi Hyun, Part 2

Daily Life under State Violence: Interview with South Korean Playwright Yun Mi Hyun, Part 1

“Legend of The Waitress & The Robber” – A Korean American Cross Cultural Collaboration Makes it to New York City

“The Legend of the Waitress & the Robber”: World Premiere of NYC-Seoul Collaboration Inspired by Schiller and Hong Gildong

The Need to Recycle Forms the Core of this Korean Non-Verbal Play

Asian Adaptations of Shakespeare Today

A Woman and an Immigrant, but Most of All, a Scientist: Musical “Marie Curie” Review

Searching for the Origin of the Korean Wave: The Nanhee’s MIMAJI!

Battle Of The Sexes In The Midst Of A Refugee Crisis In Korea: “Big Love” By Ets (Eye To Soul)

Love, Labor, Loop: (Object’s) Life according to Geumhyung Jeong

Eunkyung Jeong Elucidates Enlightenment in Her Autobiographical Installation

“Self Life Drawing” – Eunkyung Jeong

Entering “Yellow Inn”: A Conversation Between the Playwright and Translator, Part 2

Entering “Yellow Inn”: A Conversation Between the Playwright and Translator, Part 1

Navigating Korea and America: Meet Hansol Jung, Playwright of “Wild Goose Dreams” and “Cardboard Piano”

Thinking Out Loud

Korean Theatre at The Edinburgh Fringe 2018: “About Lady White Fox with Nine Tales . . .”

“Deep Present” – Jisun Kim Stages Four Artificial Intelligences

Following The #MeToo Movement In Korean Theatre

Electra Takes Revenge into Her Own Hands

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