About performance
A world that constitutes a man; time is not linear but accumulated.
’Waning Crescent, or the Way You Remember the World’ attempts at a new approach and interpretation of ’memory,’ ’time,’ ’suffering,’ and ’penitence.’
The man and woman in the play used to be high school sweethearts. The man served his 15- year sentence for killing his classmate Young-hoon and is now released. He writes a novel titled ’The Story of Universe Egg’ and sends it to the publishing company where the woman works, who, recognizing herself in the story, goes to meet him.
Young-hoon’s mother, who is going after the man who killed her son, lingers around the two who reunited, while the man realizes how the murder he committed made the world desolate. He starts to find a way to turn back time.
The events in the piece do not unfold in a chronological order.
It also subverts the conventional concept of time that believes things are experienced only once, in the order of the past, present and future. In deconstructed time and space, the audience meets the world of a man through broken stories and fragmented scenes.

Synopsis
“The time I spent with you makes up the best moments of my life.
I’ll never regret them.
If I had to go through it all over again to meet you, I would.”

Waning Crescent, or the Way You Remember the World is a story about victims of school bullying. Themes of memory, pain, and atonement are explored through three characters: a man who committed murder, a woman who loves him, and the mother of the victim. Time proceeds in a linear way only to humans, from the past to the present, and everything is experienced only once. However, Waning Crescent, or the Way You Remember the World piece subverts this very idea to create a new and unfamiliar experience for the audience through the physical movements of the actors in deconstructed time and space.

About company
Founded in 1999, Dong Theatre Company has done various theatrical experiments with a focus on actor’s body and gained recognition for their distinct qualities of work. As an effort to have encounters with our era, world and the human, they formed Monday Acting Research Lab in 2007 to develop a unique theatrical form and acting method. As a result, they arrived at ’Physical action technique’ as acting method, which delivers the characters and content of scenes through presence rather than expression of emotions and psychology.

Credits
Original/ Gang-myeong Jang
Adaptation/ Jin-sae Jeong
Director/ Ryang-won Kang
Set Design/ Yil-jin Lim
Light Design/ Bo-yun Choi
Composer/ Young-gyu Jang
Choreographer/ Bae-seop Geum
Costume Design/ Gi-jeong Kang
Makeup Design·Props Design/ Gyeong-suk Jang
Sound Operator/ Rai-Kyung Lee
Stage Art Assistant/ Mi-Yeon Oh
Assistant Director/ Eun-mi Lee
Cast: Seok-ju Kim, Tae-yong Choi, Min-woong Youn, Moon-hi Kim, So-young Shin, Jung-a Kim, Eun-suk Yoo
Co-Production/ Namsan Arts Center

*Photo Credit: Mool-lee Kang