Program

All the Soldiers Are Pathetic

GenreTheater 

CompanyTheatre Company Golmokil 

DirectorKun-hyung PARK 

Premiere2016 

ReferencePAMS Choice(2017) 

Websiteclub.cyworld.com/golmokil 

Performance Info

Intro
Memories of the dead ask questions about life. All Human Beings were, and are Pathetic

Synopsis
South Korea, 2016. A soldier defects from the army after suffering from violence and oppression. Kagoshima in Japan, 1945. A Korean kamikaze pilot decids to devote his life to the colonizing country. Fallujah in Iraq, 2004. Iraqi militants repeat kidnapping and killing people to survive. Baengnyeong Island in Korea, 2010. Korean naval officers of the corvette Cheonan don't even know why they are alive or dead.
In these tragic events that occurred in totally different places and periods, all the soldiers are driven to death. There are people in uniform who existed in the past, exist now, and will exist in the future. Because they wanted to live, they have to be both perpetrators and victims at the same time. This is a story of all soldiers. 

Production Details

  • Director
    Kun-hyung PARK
    Golmokil means “alley” in Korean. Theatre Company Golmokil was founded in 2003 by Geunhyung Park who wrote and directed In Praise of Youth, a play that was awarded with all theater prizes in 1999. Actors who used to be with him joined the Company. Like a tavern in the alleyway at dusk, the Theatre Company Golmokil tries to take the audience back to nostalgia and lost emotions. They have been acclaimed by the audience and the critics for their works expressing ordinary people’s everyday life on stage and their own way of expression resisting typical theatrical styles. While their performances depict desperate modern people in their everyday life, they also lead the audience to imagine 'hope' that may exist somewhere.



    Park Kun-Hyung

    Playwright / Director (Theatre Company Golmokil)

    Born in 1963, Park Kun-Hyung also teaches directing at Korea National University of Arts. His major productions include All the Soldiers are Pathetic, Beautiful Youth, Generation after Generation, Kyungsook, Kyungsook?s Father, A Manchurian Front and Hideto Iwai?s Outer World.

    In 2016, “All the Soldiers are Pathetic” was selected as one of the seven best productions by the Korean Theatre Review, a monthly magazine, and as one of the three best productions chosen by the Korean Critics Association. It also won the Dong-A Theatre Awards for the Best Drama and the Best Visual Effect.


Reference

  • Tour Size34 ( 23 Performers,11 staff )
  • Durationmin : 105( Intermission : 0 )

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