The Korean People by Michel Vinaver
“A triumph” Fabienne Darge, Le Monde. “A creation of a new myth” La Gazette Jaune
Directed by Buyn Jung Joo and Marion Schoevaert. Produced by Wuturi Company
The Korean People video. Seongnam Art Center. European Tour : Scene National Evreux, Theatre National Dijon Bourgogne
After an American bombardment, everything is destroyed in the north Korean Village of Yuwon, life is disrupted and the love ones are dead. The village stands up, and start living again. Not far, in the forest, five French UN soldiers are lost and scared. A young girl from Yuwon finds a wounded French caporal. She helps him bury of an American soldier, he helps her to find her brother’s dead body. She brings him back to the village. This is the story of North Korean people whose reality is changedby the outside and the story of a soldier who becomes a man.
The play follows a “gut”, a Korean ritual for the dead who died violently in the Korean war. The spirits are stuck in shape of ghosts, and the actors will be acting as “mudang” or shaman, calling the names of the dead (civilian from north and south Korea, Turcs, American, Chinese soldiers…)
