Intro
How do you feel about another’s tragedy? Is it your pain? Or is it just the pain of someone else?

Synopsis
Before After is divided into sections based on time.
It shows the changes that occur before and after a devastating event. A time before and after is created after a tragic,irreversible event. What experiences do we go through that make us realize that an event has affected “our” lives? The play Before After begins by answering this question. The play uses a pivotal event in our society that intersects with before and after events that occur in different people’s lives. Moments in time are expressed using the theater’s emergency exit instructions, rap, a girl-group dance sequence, news broadcast, and real-time video. What happens as a point in “my” time on stage suddenly meets “your” space.

Creator / artist
Creative VaQi was established in 2007. They are a unique company that is willing to break down the boundaries of theater when the circumstances require. Their works often proceed not in the theater but in the spaces of everyday life. VaQi’s works clearly embody images of our era and appropriately pose questions. Their presentation of an issue does not merely remain on the level of an abstract and superficial humanistic and social thesis. Their works are always closely connected to specific elements of daily life, community, and the spaces where they actually develop. Prior to creating VaQi’s works, actors and staff members all physically stay in the space, breathe in the space, and conduct long-term research.