‘modernizing Korean traditional dramatics'

The Wuturi style stretches between the boundaries of Western drama and Korean traditions.  Wuturi creates a ‘new modern tradition’, building an identity of its own. 

Actors experiment and train with texts to reconnect with the originality of intonations and rhythms of the Korean language. All texts are put into a musical score. The text, the music and the movements are in accord as one by the drum beat.  Wuturi’s theater is based on the sweat of actors in movement, dancing and singing.  Actors are intensively trained in traditional and mask dance, puppet shows, modern movements and the martial arts.  Wuturi is now experimenting and extending its style on foreign plays whose stories are meaningful to Korean audience today.

BIOGRAPHY

Kim Kwang Lim has written and directed in national theaters Why the Heavenly Woman / Hongdonggi Play/  Come on Mutu /  Wuturi /  I Became Chuan-tzu in Dream / Come to See Me /  The Last Empress (musical) / That Star is in Danger /  The House/  Hongdongji Is Alive /  Women Revolt /  In Quest of Love /  The Underworld Changed. He holds an MA in Theater from UCLA and a BA in French Literature from Seoul National University. His plays are published in Korea by Pyeng MinSa and Theatres Coreens in Paris. He is translated in French and English. He received the Baksang Arts Award for Best Play in 1996 and Best Director & Grand Prize in 1993. He was also Artist of the Year from the Korean Arts Critics Association in 1996 and Dong-A Theater Award for Best Director in 1989. He is currently a Professor at School of Drama, Korea National University of since 1994, and the Artistic Director of Wuturi Players.

THE PLAYERS 

Theater/ Uijongbu Art Center

Administrative Director/  Lee Seung Yeop                  

Artistic Director/  Kim Kwang Lim 

Producer/  Kim Okjin       

Directors/ Marion Schoevaert / Byun Jung Joo

Public Relations / Claire Sung

Musical Director/  Choi Young Suk

Composer/   Kim Dong Kun

Choreographer/  Park Jun Mi

Set Design/ Cho Eun Byeol

Light Design/  Lee Yu Jin            

Costume Design/ Choi One         

Makeup Design/ Lee Dong Min                 

Actors/  Ko Ki Hyug  /Seo Sang Won  /Kong Sang A                 

HISTORY

Wuturi was created by Kim Kwang Lim and Byun Jung Joo in 2002.  They produced Wuturi Baby Giant which premiered at the Seoul Art Center and then toured in Taiwan, France and Russia in 2002-04. Come on Mutu premiered at Korean National University of Arts in 2005 and at Uijeongbu Art Center in 2006-08. Korean People premiered at the Seongnam Art Center in 2005, toured in France in 2007 and 2009. Hongdonggi Play premiered at KNUA and at the National Theater in 2007 . Why the Heavenly Woman… premiered at Guerrilla Theater in 2007.  Confession premiered at Seoul Art Center in 2008.

In 2009-10 Wuturi is touring Korean People, producing Macbeth by Shakespeare and 21 Positions by American playwrights Naomi Wallace and Lisa Schlesinger.

Wuturi is a not for profit organization.