Winner of the Grand Prize, Best Director, and Best Actor at the World Duo Theater Festival

1977, a coal mine in Germany.
After a gas explosion deep underground, one man is left trapped and alone.

Then someone appears before him—his older brother, who died in the same mine ten years earlier, now a wandering spirit.

The brother urges him to live.
The younger brother, having given up on everything, waits quietly for death.

Hope can be cruel, and despair can be strangely sweet.
In the end, who is truly alive?

A rescue rope is lowered, and the moment of escape arrives—but life betrays them once again.

Two souls who meet again in death remain bound beneath the earth, unable to embrace their homeland, the sea, or their families.

The two-person play “Glück Auf” asks a question at the boundary between life and death:

Are we truly living right now?

Theater company TAEYANGEUI BADA explores the profound imagery of Korean storytelling, emotion, sound, movement, and color, while continuously pursuing research and experimentation to preserve “our language” so that it does not disappear.

Its artistic inquiry reinterprets the dynamic spirit of Shintoburi—the idea that the body and the land where one is born are inseparable—and Onggojisin—learning from the old to discover the new. Through this perspective, the company envisions a future-oriented and dynamic transformation of Korean traditional arts.

Through constant challenges and inventive experimentation, Theater company TAEYANGEUI BADA boldly integrates peak aerial arts such as vertical circus, media art, and advanced technology into the realm of contemporary theatre.

By pushing beyond the boundaries of drama, language, and imagination through physical movement and expression, it has emerged as a collective of artistic explorers redefining the possibilities of performance.