theater

writer/  Kim Kwang Lim

director /Marion Schoevaert   

choreograph/  Park Jun Mi  music/  Kim Dong Kun /Choe Young Suk/Cho Yong Uk

actors/  Kong Sang A/Whong Seok Jang/Lee Jin/Lee Young Soo/Park Jun Mi

translation English/  Bae SangPil /Marion Schoevaert   French /  Han Yumi /Herve Pejaudier

where and when 

Seoul Art Center  /jayu theater / september 2008

synopsis

A man and a woman are born. As soon as they start talking they start lying. As they grow, they love and cheat. They confess their sins to the audience. As soon as the audience starts to empathize with the sins, they announce that all their confessions were a lie. And that is also a confession.  We are sinners and liars until we die. In this play there is no true repentance, no absolution, no forgiveness, and no salvation.  It is the relentless cycle of human life.

artistic statement

with my foreign point of view, I can point out what is the obvious, taken for granted and habitual by many Korean people. 

so I question:  why  korean people are so busy, where are they going?  Why people are so obsessed with money?  Why so many people are single?  Why are the demonstrations and fitness exercises so orderly lined up like in a military training?  Why people drink so often so much, when they have family waiting for them at home?  Why 1 woman out of 5 is in the sex industry? Why does such an old man work in the subway? Why women work in the kitchen all the time? How can family intervene marriage between 2 people? I find all these conditions violent and casual.

 Confession is a study of the conditions in which such violence is created and how it effects directly the relations between men and women at home, in room salons, at school, at work.

The tacit tolerance of this violence in Korea is a modern crisis and needs to be confessed.

press

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funding

produced by Wuturi Players  /  Art Council Korea

touring conditions

Confession is very easy to tour.  There are five actors and three musicians on the stage. The performing area can be anywhere (10mX10m). We require a dance floor. Lights are minimalist, and there is no set.  For financial information, please contact producer Kim Okjin at   jin42nd@paran.com