Company Introduction

Siren eun young jung has been trying to expand the language of feminist art and interested in political and historical moments when personal affect interferes. Developing the “Yeoseong Gukgeuk Project” that explores the history and community of Korea’s all-female musical theatre, she has been working across exhibitions, performances, screening, research and writing. Trans-Theatre, a book that compiles these activities, was published in 2015. Among her performances are (Off)Stage/Masterclass, I Am Not Going to Sing and Anomalous Fantasy. She won the Hermes Art Prize in 2013, Shindorico art award in 2015, and was nominated as the Artist of the Year 2018 by the Musuem of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea (MMCA).

Performance Detail

Yeoseong Gukgeuk is a Korean musical theatre form that once flourished and rapidly declined, where women would play all the roles. One day, a woman in her 30s suddenly abandoned her ordinary life to become a Yeoseong Gukgeuk male-role performer. What is created from the friction between the genre that has almost disappeared and the performer-to-be who has sacrificed her life for the genre? When inaudible murmurings become manifestoes and the experiences of invisible existences become histories, songs are heard. The third version after Korean and Taiwanese versions.