A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Opening Performance
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

TitleA Midsummer Night’s Dream
CountryKorea
Production CompanySadari Movement Laboratory
Age restrictionElementary school students
Running time125min (no intermission)
VenueBusan Cinema Center Haneulyeon Theatre
Reservation Linkhttps://www.dureraum.org/bcc/ccontents/view.do?rbsIdx=39&contentsCode=20230413004

9th Jun (Fri) ~ 10th Jun (Sat) 2023 

9th Jun (Fri) 19:00 (incl. Opening ceremonies)

10th Jun (Sat) 17:00

The forest of Magic, where mystic energy is hidden under the darkness and moon

A mystical world unfolding with sleep and dreams, desire and imagination. A cheerful and unpredictable story of couples looking for true love

A flawless masterpiece by Shakespeare, <A Midsummer Night’s Dream>

Mia and Lyaeop, a young couple in country of Biryu, decide to escape because of Mia’s father who wants his daughter to marry another man, Duman. Hearyeong, who is still devoted to Duman even he only loves Mia, informs this plan to Duman. Duman, who knew the fact belatedly, The forest of Magic, where mystic energy is hidden under the darkness and moon

A mystical world unfolding with sleep and dreams, desire and imagination. A cheerful and unpredictable story of couples looking for true love

A flawless masterpiece by Shakespeare, <A Midsummer Night’s Dream>

Mia and Lyaeop, a young couple in country of Biryu, decide to escape because of Mia’s father who wants his daughter to marry another man, Duman. Hearyeong, who is still devoted to Duman even he only loves Mia, informs this plan to Duman. Duman, who knew the fact belatedly, follows them, and Hearyeong follows him. And four lovers happen to spend the night at a magical forest near country of Biryu. King of fairies Keumgang yeoksa and queen Mago living there, have a domestic squabble over ownership of the one boy. As the queen Mago didn’t accept his request, Keumgang yeoksa used magical juice to possess that boy, making Mago fall in love with a worker Bukswae with a donkey head. Duduri, Keumgang yeoksa's servant, uses the juice on these star-crossed four lovers…

Artistic director, IM Do-Wan has been experimenting with kinetic theater in Korea since completing his studies at the L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He founded the Sadari Movement Laboratory in 1998 to unite the collaborative energies of a troupe committed to creative processes. All members are trained in the Jacques Lecoq method as well as traditional Korean dance to maximize SML’s repertory. They are fully engaged in producing each theatrical experience – from analysis and translation of the text to bringing it to life through kinetic images and versatile, economic movements.

Stepping beyond dialogue and realist conventions, the company believes actors can express the social and psychological state of their characters more poignantly by utilizing separate spaces and dynamic rhythms that stress physical capabilities and characteristics.

In Les Aveugle, Typist, Spectrum 2001, The Cherry Orchard, Between Two Gates, Woyzeck, Human Comedy, and all its productions, SML experiments with physical movement, objects, sound and light to create a space full of imagination that draws in audiences from every culture.

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