Turning New Year's Literary Award Winners into Plays, Arts Council's 'Spring Writers, Winter Stage'

Three Performances at Daehangno Arts Theater Small Theater Starting from the 13th

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Byung-hee] The Korea Arts & Culture Education Service Arko·Daehangno Arts Theater will present "Spring Writers, Winter Stage" at the Daehangno Arts Theater Small Theater from the 13th to the 29th.

"Spring Writers, Winter Stage" is a planned program by Arko·Daehangno Arts Theater that offers emerging playwrights, who have debuted in the New Year's Literary Contest play category and experienced staging their plays through the "New Year's Literary Contest One-Act Play Festival," a new opportunity to write full-length plays. Through "Spring Writers, Winter Stage," Arko·Daehangno Arts Theater accompanies the process of producing the writers' first full-length plays on stage over the four seasons, enhancing the completeness of the works and striving to lay the foundation for revitalizing the Korean theater scene with original plays.

The first work to be presented this year in "Spring Writers, Winter Stage" is "Prometheus' Liver," performed from the 13th to the 15th. This witty and playful piece, co-created by writer Kim Jun-hyun, who won the 2020 Chosun Ilbo New Year's Literary Contest play category with "People Standing at the Edge of a Cliff," and Lee Cheol-hee, director of Cornerstone and an active playwright and director, brings Greek mythology into the contradictions of our era, twisting and parodying it.

"American Theater/Seoul Choir (20th?22nd)" is a work by writer Lee Hong-do, who won the 2020 Hankook Ilbo New Year's Literary Contest play category with "The New York Times' excessively brief report on the Asian pregnant woman who jumped from the Columbia University dormitory balcony and the Asian man who fled the scene," and director Seol Yoo-jin of 907, who freely tells stories without being bound by form, searching for symbols and metaphors in the surroundings. The work stands out for its originality in sincerely formalizing the author's personal life, playful self-reflective structure, and the encounter between past and present.

"When Summer Passes (27th?29th)" is a collaboration between writer Lim Ji-soo, who won the 2020 Korea Playwrights Association New Year's Literary Contest with "That One Tree," and director Kim Han-nae of the project group Pa-da-bap, who participated twice in previous "Spring Writers, Winter Stage" programs. The piece conveys the sensibility and humidity of a languid summer passing by indifferently.

Tickets for "Spring Writers, Winter Stage" can be reserved through the Arko·Daehangno Arts Theater website and Interpark.

Arko·Daehangno Arts Theater is making efforts to prevent COVID-19 and create a safe viewing environment by disinfecting and sanitizing the venue, having audiences fill out health questionnaires, checking temperatures, and providing hand sanitizers.

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