Winner of the Grand Prize, Best Director, and Best Actor Awards at the World Two-Person Theater Festival

“Glück auf”

A traditional greeting among German miners, exchanged before descending into the underground shafts. It carries the meaning: “May we return safely and meet again above ground.”

1975, a coal mine in Germany.

Two miners, trapped a thousand meters below the surface after an accident, find themselves on the brink between life and death. In their struggle, they cling to hope and the will to survive—by any means necessary…

The two-person play <Glück auf> poses a question from the edge of life and death:

Are we truly living, here and 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.