Performance Title: Macbeth's Lady Shaman
Date: October 27, 2023
Time: 8:00-9:10 pm
Venue: Building #14, Theater (1st floor) at Seoul National University
JIYOUNG CHOI is an actress, playwright and Visiting Professor at Seoul Institute of the Arts. She studied Acting at Columbia University in NY and has performed in Seoul, New York and London. Her Young Company production has been focused on finding human truth in Shakespeare plays through Theatre and Dance in Monodrama. The first written and performed show, While Ophelia’s Korean Drum Weeps, was in The 20th New York International Fringe Festival. Love Deadline (Desdemona) adapted from Othello to Desdemona’s metaphorical expression awarded in ASA(Asian Shakespeare Association) Shakespeare Script Competitions in 2022.
Macbeth’s Lady Shaman is Korean Dance Monodrama inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Lady Shaman moves slowly. She is holding five different colors of flags in red, green, yellow, blue and white. As her dance gets faster, all flags are crossed each other from people’s desire and gradually got slower when she heard Macbeth’s Voice from a distance. “Ari, I wish I could go back to pure days when we were young…”
Macbeth’s Lady Shaman won the Best International Show award in The 14th Annual United Solo Theatre Festival-Spring 2023 In New York.
Performance Title: Pansori Hamlet, Monologue
Date: October 28, 2023
Time: 4:35-6:00 pm
Venue: Building #14, Theater (1st floor) at Seoul National University
Pansori (Korean traditional narrative music) performer Bo-ra Song performs Hamlet, Ophelia, Claudius, Polonius, Laertes and Gertrude in a revised version of Pansori Hamlet directed by Park Sun-hee and produced by the Korean Traditional Musical Company Taroo. Pansori Hamlet, premiered in 2012, was originally created for four actors taking turns playing roles in Hamlet. In 2020, it was reborn as Pansori Hamlet, Monologue, returning to the original format of pansori, in which a singer conveys the story playing all the roles, accompanied by a drummer.