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THE HISTORY OF KOREAN WESTERN THEATRE

THE HISTORY OF KOREAN WESTERN THEATRE

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What is Korean theatre? This deceptively simple question gives rise to a host of others, all of them crucial and unanswerable. In 2008, South Korean theatre, celebrating its hundredth anniversary, seemed to Jaha Koo like a sterile practice, diluted by forced westernization. Yet this peninsular nation was once stirred by dance, ceremonies, and rituals full of mythical figures. Jaha Koo, as heir to an amputated memory, probes the shadows of childhood and the blind spots of history to create from the ruins of the past a form of theatre that responds to the present.

The History of Korean Western Theatre follows the irresistible Cuckoo, whose disarming uniqueness delighted Montréal audiences in 2019. Always applying himself with a whimsical rigour to subverting documentary, this genre-defying artist is spreading his wings wide, filling the stage with his delicate, enchanting sound and visual creations.

Produced by CAMPO
Concept, Text, Direction, Music, Video and Research Jaha Koo
Performed by Jaha Koo + Seri + Toad
Dramaturgy Dries Douibi
Set Design, Drawing and Research Eunkyung Jeong
Artistic Advisor Pol Heyvaert
Technicians Jan Berckmans + Korneel Coessens + Koen Goossens + Bart Huybrechts
Programming Idella Craddock
Interview Kiran Kim + Jooyoung Koh + Kyungmi Lee
Co-produced by Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels) + Münchner Kammerspiele + Frascati Producties (Amsterdam) + Veem House for Performance (Amsterdam) + SPRING Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht) + Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Zurich) + Black Box teater (Oslo) + Kampnagel International Summer Festival (Hamburg) + Tanzquartier Wien + wpZimmer (Antwerp) + Théâtre de la Bastille (Paris) + Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of Beursschouwburg (Brussels) + Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (Brussels) + Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
Residencies Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijk) + wpZimmer (Antwerp) + Decoratelier Jozef Wouters (Brussels) + Doosan Art Center (Seoul)

2022-06-02
Quartier des spectacles Montreal, Quebec