Winner of 4 Seoul Theater Festival Awards / Professor Lee Eun Jin(Theater Major)
- 24.07.19 / 박서연
「Becoming a Person」 a play produced and directed by Professor Lee Eun Jin, a theater major at Kookmin University (President Jung Seung Ryul), Department of Performing Arts, won four awards at the 45th Seoul Theater Festival, including Best Play, Best Playwriting (Lee Eun Jin), Best Acting (Kim Bo Na), and Best Stage Art (Tak Hyung Sun).
The Ulyeon Theater Festival has been established as a representative arts festival in Seoul that selects and performs plays with outstanding artistry and topicality that represent the times. This year's festival was held from May 1 (Wednesday) to June 30 (Sunday) at the Daehak-ro area under the slogan “Theater, Coexistence in Multiple Zones!” and featured eight officially selected plays and 30 works from the free competition.
「Becoming a Person」 is a research-based creative drama that explores the possibilities for coexistence under the theme of prejudice and hatred in contemporary society. The The work begins with the discovery of the cracks in everyday life caused by division, and asks whether we can live well with ourselves and others across the precarious cracks of prejudice, hatred, dichotomous thinking, and pia division. Gong It tells the story of people who struggle towards the almost impossible, but nevertheless, meaning of “living well together.” This The film was well received by audiences and critics, with an audience occupancy rate of over 95%.
Lee Eun Jin studied ensemble creation at the Dell'arte International School of Physical Theater in the United States and has been working as a writer, director, and mask designer for various works since 2013, starting with “Nose,” a comic fantasy adaptation of Gogol's short story.
She is regarded as a young director whose work focuses on the contradictions of human snobbery and society through an original theatrical language based on physical performance.
Since 2013, the theater company Barbacus, of which he is a founding member, has been actively performing various forms of performances centered on masks, objects, and the intense body language of actors. Representatives Their works include <My Food Struggle>, <Commentary Unit>, <Menglang Byeolgok>, <Purgatory>, and <Comic Fantasia Nose>, and have been recognized for their sharp thematic consciousness and solid composition.
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「Becoming a Person」 a play produced and directed by Professor Lee Eun Jin, a theater major at Kookmin University (President Jung Seung Ryul), Department of Performing Arts, won four awards at the 45th Seoul Theater Festival, including Best Play, Best Playwriting (Lee Eun Jin), Best Acting (Kim Bo Na), and Best Stage Art (Tak Hyung Sun).
The Ulyeon Theater Festival has been established as a representative arts festival in Seoul that selects and performs plays with outstanding artistry and topicality that represent the times. This year's festival was held from May 1 (Wednesday) to June 30 (Sunday) at the Daehak-ro area under the slogan “Theater, Coexistence in Multiple Zones!” and featured eight officially selected plays and 30 works from the free competition.
「Becoming a Person」 is a research-based creative drama that explores the possibilities for coexistence under the theme of prejudice and hatred in contemporary society. The The work begins with the discovery of the cracks in everyday life caused by division, and asks whether we can live well with ourselves and others across the precarious cracks of prejudice, hatred, dichotomous thinking, and pia division. Gong It tells the story of people who struggle towards the almost impossible, but nevertheless, meaning of “living well together.” This The film was well received by audiences and critics, with an audience occupancy rate of over 95%.
Lee Eun Jin studied ensemble creation at the Dell'arte International School of Physical Theater in the United States and has been working as a writer, director, and mask designer for various works since 2013, starting with “Nose,” a comic fantasy adaptation of Gogol's short story.
She is regarded as a young director whose work focuses on the contradictions of human snobbery and society through an original theatrical language based on physical performance.
Since 2013, the theater company Barbacus, of which he is a founding member, has been actively performing various forms of performances centered on masks, objects, and the intense body language of actors. Representatives Their works include <My Food Struggle>, <Commentary Unit>, <Menglang Byeolgok>, <Purgatory>, and <Comic Fantasia Nose>, and have been recognized for their sharp thematic consciousness and solid composition.
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