Theater Tomorrow Project, Tandem, The Birth of a Queen, Ferdaus

Showtimes

Friday (15:00, 19:00), Saturday ~ Sunday (15:00, 19:00)

Cast

Kwak Sung-chan, Kwon Yi-young, Kim Yang-kyun, Kim Yun-ji, Kim Ji-hye, Ryu Ji-oh, Moon Jae-hyun, etc.

Creative Team

Kim Nam-eon, Ryu Sara, Lee Min-gu, etc.

Synopsis

[Performance Introduction] 1. <Firdaus> <Firdaus> is a work that portrays human solidarity and hope blossoming amidst the shackles of pain and loss. The process of children shattering eternal peace and being cast into the colossal myth of the world awakens us to the essence and finiteness of life. Their journey prompts us to question what constitutes true ‘paradise’ and where the meaning of life lies. 2. <The Birth of a Queen> Set in the 1980s at ‘Saebyeok Precision,’ a watch factory equipped with dormitories, this production depicts how people form beliefs amidst a chaotic era and how those beliefs transform into power. Drawing motifs from the first cult leader to emerge during the Japanese colonial period, the “Southern Queen,” and the “Odaeyang Incident,” the work portrays on stage the collusion of fanaticism, survival, and power that has permeated modern Korean history. This piece discusses the structure that repeatedly gives birth to queens in every era. 3. <Tandem> "We want to fly 1,000km to the shining sea In the crashing waves I want to hold you" Tandem – a motorcycle ridden by two people. Cheol-ju, an eighteen-year-old boy who is nobody, and Aidar, a girl who wants to disappear. A delivery worker who has his tithe stolen and an undocumented migrant girl; all they possess is a rattling, breaking-down City Best motorcycle. Kang Hoon-gu's chilling text and Kim Nam-eon's energetic direction sharply engrave the deficiencies of children abandoned by the city onto the stage. The passionate movements created by ten actors complete a fiery ride that asks the audience about the 'meaning of life.' Cheol-ju and Aidar, clutching each other tightly and speeding up. Will they be able to escape this damned city? Tandem [Synopsis] 1. <Firdaus> In a future that has become a barren wasteland following an ancient war, ten children named after Hebrew numbers live in a facility called Firdaus, a paradise. The artificial intelligence "Hawwah," which oversees the facility, has frozen the children's time and suppressed their growth for the sake of "eternal safety." However, as Hawwah's power runs out, the system falls silent, and the stopped time descends upon the children as a catastrophe of rapid aging. Amidst the irony that a growing body becomes a dying body, the children discover a clue: a "RESET" button that can reset the world. The children break through solid walls and venture out into the world to survive. On a journey fraught with hunger and fear, the children embrace each other and invent "love," and in a time that touches death, they finally begin to question the true meaning of life. 2. <The Birth of a Queen> In the 1980s, Choi Dong-bi, a university student involved in the student movement, hides in "Saebyeok Precision," a watch factory run by a Christian organization, to escape pursuit by plainclothes police. However, it is not a simple factory, but a cult where labor and prayer are intertwined, and the owner is revered like a cult leader. Unable to tolerate the atmosphere where only prayer is forced even as a female colleague goes blind due to the harsh working conditions, Choi Dong-bi begins to persuade her fellow workers.... 3. <Tandem> In the back alleys of Incheon, the life of eighteen-year-old Cheol-ju is as precarious as the rattling engine of his old motorcycle, "Shiba." Surviving his days as a lackey for school bullies while having his tithes extorted, the only thing he longs for is to stand at the forefront of a legendary biker gang that takes over the Han River bridge on the night of Liberation Day. One day, at a repair shop where he drags his broken Shiba, Cheol-ju reunites with Aidar, a middle school classmate and undocumented migrant child from Kazakhstan. Aidar, a girl erased from the world after losing her ability to speak. However, the moment she steps onto a motorcycle, she slices through the air of this city at a speed no one can catch. Cheol-ju, who wants to ride faster than anyone else, begins learning to ride from Aidar, and every night, the two hop onto the Shiva and start riding through the city nights together...

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