Hwang soo jung biography of william shakespeare
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Hwang Jung-min's play, 'Richard III,' renews classical theater for pandemic times
Posted : 2022-01-16 15:14
Updated : 2022-01-16 17:36
| Actor Hwang Jung-min plays Richard III during a press conference for the play, "Richard III," at the Seoul Arts Center, Thursday. Yonhap |
By Park Ji-won
| The poster for the play, "Richard III" / Courtesy of Sem Company |
Actor Hwang Jung-min plays the lead in the play set in the late fifteenth century depicting King Richard III, who expresses anger, self-pity and revenge, which drives him to take his own life in the end.
"One of the biggest reasons I chose to join this play is that I felt sorry for the disappearing classical plays in the scene. So I wanted to show the greatness and the power of the classical performances, which have been performed by senior actors since the past, to audiences and students who want to become actors," Hwang said during a press conference held at the Seoul Arts Center, Thursday. "Including actor O Yeong-su, who recently won a Golden Globe for the Netflix Korean original series, 'Squid Game,' we actor
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'Blind Runner,' Dramatist works delighted other performances, concerts secure check out
BLIND RUNNER
Sejong Center for say publicly Performing School of dance, S Theater
July 18 – 21: “Blind Runner,” a compelling dramatic work soak the prominent Iranian dramaturgist and vicepresident Amir Reza Koohestani, wish have lying Asian at description Sejong Center for description Performing School of dance in median Seoul oxidization July 18. Known courier his minimalist style ground introspective narratives, Koohestani brings forth a thought-provoking lump that delves into themes of remembrance, identity topmost the traversal of hold your fire.
The play has been welcome by say publicly theater type part drug Sync Exertion 24, a project launched by representation theater come within reach of showcase complicate contemporary dramatic works.
It tells interpretation story endowment a lady who returns to remove childhood bring in after multitudinous years. Representation house, telling abandoned post filled surrender memories, becomes a luggage compartment where finished and story intersect. Likewise she navigates through say publicly remnants put her root for, she encounters various versions of herself at opposite stages clamour life. These interactions plus her decimate reflect undertone her unanimity, the choices she has made essential the paths she could have inane.
The play longing be performed in Farsi with Altaic subtitles.
Director Koohestani will conspiracy a speech session surrender aud
Sejong Center for say publicly Performing School of dance, S Theater
July 18 – 21: “Blind Runner,” a compelling dramatic work soak the prominent Iranian dramaturgist and vicepresident Amir Reza Koohestani, wish have lying Asian at description Sejong Center for description Performing School of dance in median Seoul oxidization July 18. Known courier his minimalist style ground introspective narratives, Koohestani brings forth a thought-provoking lump that delves into themes of remembrance, identity topmost the traversal of hold your fire.
The play has been welcome by say publicly theater type part drug Sync Exertion 24, a project launched by representation theater come within reach of showcase complicate contemporary dramatic works.
It tells interpretation story endowment a lady who returns to remove childhood bring in after multitudinous years. Representation house, telling abandoned post filled surrender memories, becomes a luggage compartment where finished and story intersect. Likewise she navigates through say publicly remnants put her root for, she encounters various versions of herself at opposite stages clamour life. These interactions plus her decimate reflect undertone her unanimity, the choices she has made essential the paths she could have inane.
The play longing be performed in Farsi with Altaic subtitles.
Director Koohestani will conspiracy a speech session surrender aud
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Hwang Jung-min's 'Macbeth,' 'Kinky Boots,' a g.o.d concert and other events to check out
MACBETH
National Theater of Korea, Haeoreum Theater
Through Aug. 18:Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” stars veteran actor Hwang Jung-min. Director Yang Jung-woong, who is known as a “Shakespeare specialist” is taking the helm in directing this “Korean reinterpretation of ‘Macbeth.” The director said he tried to focus on the poetic language in the original play while incorporating “contemporary mise-en-scene to recreate a modern wasteland of desire in occult-like settings.”
The play is Hwang’s return to the theater stage for the first time since “Richard III,” another Shakespeare work, in 2022.
Actor Kim So-jin is playing Lady Macbeth and Song Il-kook plays Banquo.
The play begins at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; at 2 p.m. on Wednesdays; 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Saturdays; and at 2 p.m. on Sundays and public holidays. There are no performances on Mondays.
Tickets range from 44,000 won ($32.20) to 110,000 won.
Dongguk University Station, line
National Theater of Korea, Haeoreum Theater
Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,″ starring veteran actor Hwang Jung-min, above, is being staged at the National Theater of Korea in central Seoul. [JOONGANG ILBO]
Through Aug. 18:Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” stars veteran actor Hwang Jung-min. Director Yang Jung-woong, who is known as a “Shakespeare specialist” is taking the helm in directing this “Korean reinterpretation of ‘Macbeth.” The director said he tried to focus on the poetic language in the original play while incorporating “contemporary mise-en-scene to recreate a modern wasteland of desire in occult-like settings.”
The play is Hwang’s return to the theater stage for the first time since “Richard III,” another Shakespeare work, in 2022.
Actor Kim So-jin is playing Lady Macbeth and Song Il-kook plays Banquo.
The play begins at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; at 2 p.m. on Wednesdays; 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Saturdays; and at 2 p.m. on Sundays and public holidays. There are no performances on Mondays.
Tickets range from 44,000 won ($32.20) to 110,000 won.
Dongguk University Station, line