Director: Lee Jung-wook
Institution: Chung-Woon University, Korea
Venue: Playground
Time: 16:30, May 18, 2011
Event: ATEC 6th International Forum
Director’s Notes
'A story is created from nothing.
What if there is no text?
Yes, we have been rehearsing and performing based on texts. Most of the students work are still done in this way.
The production we have to create this time, however, is a street theatre!
Everything should come literally from nothing, in the freedom of the streets and in the communication with audiences.
I feel this is the art I have been dreaming of.
For all of us this project will become an exceptional opportunity where we as a director, actors and staffs can create theatrical work from nothing.
Synopsis
In a warm spring, in the rural hometown of ours this story begins.
Three generations live together in this quite ordinary and yet happy family; a grandfather who misses his hometown, a disabled father, a mother who makes living for the family, an uncle and an aunt who has always been dreaming of better life, a brother and a little girl.
Living in poverty, some of the family members decided to leave home and went to the city to make money. Mother quit her job and started a new work in a restaurant, and the uncle began working for an illegal telecommunication company. They go through painful times in the bleak city, but they endure hard work thinking of other families at home.
Although the economic circumstances became better with the support of his wife, the father blames himself feeling powerlessness as the patriarch of the family, and has begun drinking every night. The brother, watching his father losing sobriety, defies his father and other families.
All the family members become so weary with homesick, missing the family. The mother, uncle and aunt learned the lesson that money is not everything in life, and they finally came back home.
This play is about a poor but happy family and its story of going through realistic problems of life, leaving home, and coming back.