Director: Kim Garam
Playwright: Kim Garam
Institution: Department of Theatre, College of the Arts, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Venue: Experimental Theatre
Time: 19:30-20:30, May 20, 2014
Event: The 1st World Theatre Education Convention with 3rd Asian Theatre Schools Festival
Director’s Notes
I started writing <Story of Arang> last winter which was unusually hard for me.
While I was writing <Story of Arang> I kept on thinking about what we are all living for. And After all the thinking, I could reach the answer that greed of people can be the main topic. By looking at the stars in night sky, you can realize that what a short life it is. Although we know the fact, we still cannot get rid of the useless greed which would leave scars.
“After living this long, I don’t feel like living at all.” <Story of Arang> is about love and ambition. Life and love is ruined because ambition exists. Through this short life, can we throw away useless greed and keep dignity of human. How shall we live?
Synopsis
Age of Gaero, 21st King of Baekje.
Gaero was always worried about people's shouting due to armies of foreign kingdoms. Dorim, spy of Koguryeo, uses Gaero to help Koguryeo invade into Baekje. He drives thekingdom into chaos by making Gaero rebuild the palace.
In Gaero's dream, he was consoled by a woman, and he can't forget this woman. Dorim searches all around the kingdom to find this woman. Finally, Dorim introduces Arang, the most beautiful woman in Baekje, to Gaero. Gaero, who fell love in first sight, puts Arang's husband Domi into prison.
Arang wisely handles the night she almost slept with Gaero. However Gaero finds out the truth and pulls off Domi's eyes and releases him on the river.
Arang, who now have to be king's wife, is crying near the river. A small boat arrives near her, and at the boat's destination she dramatically meets Domi again. They try to run away from Gaero but the war interrupts them, and they die together.
Gaero, who feels life's falsity after Arang and Domi's death, discovers that Dorim is a spy and waits for Koguryeo's army accepting his death.
Running Time: about 55 minutes