Director: Park Young-Duck
Playwright: Jean Genet
Institution: Chung-woon University, Korea
Venue: Experimental Theatre
Time: 19:30~20:50, May 21, 2010
Event: ATEC 5th International Forum with the 1st Asian Theatre Schools Festival
Director’s Notes
Jean Genet's play makes an audience very disconcerted. Though several characteristics such as the theatre of cruelty, the theatre of the absurd, symbolism, and et cetera can be detected in the original work the play going to be put on in Cheong-Woon University will be unfolded by the dramatis personae thoroughly. Haute surveillance is about the death row inmate's love story and two petty criminals' life stories those will be unfolded for the focal point quite unlike the original work tells. This is a desperate love song sung by the human beings who fell into despair! This is a warm hopeful song about human beings and their lives those dreamed by the play wright who lived as a stranger.
Synopsis
The play focuses on human psychology varies in an extreme situation while imprisoned. It is about the prisoners; one death row inmate and two petty criminals. They are the fellow prisoners. Each of them is looking for his own raison d'tre though separated from society. While doing so, they show great courage to ignore the public order, will of the weak to fight for justice, and recklessness to express their own feelings cruelly as they have a pure and simple heart. The play is about the story of human beings who are placed in an extreme situation. It denies the existing interpretation of it. It focuses on their human qualities rather than their socialites. It approaches a topic from a new viewpoint drastically and emotionally. The play is about the weight of life and outcry of self-existence those should be handled by the bunch of misfits.