The 34th Young Theater Festival, Hoerangi

Showtimes

Saturday ~ Sunday (18:00)

Cast

Yoo Su-a, Ahn Jun-mo, Lee Ga-yeon, Lee Jung-woo, Nam Chae-rin, Kwon Kyung-min, Park Geon-hwan, etc.

Creative Team

Gong Eung-gu, Hwang Seung-hyun, No Eun-mi, etc.

Synopsis

[Synopsis] "Hoeran-gi" is the story of Jang Haedang, who, unjustly framed amidst greed and power, ultimately proves her life through truth and maternal love. “The truth trapped within a limestone circle; to whose hands does true familial bonds lie?” Jang Haedang, who became a courtesan after her family’s fortunes declined, enters the household of the wealthy Ma Yuanwei as his concubine, gives birth to a son named Surang, and lives a peaceful life. However, Ma Yuanwei’s legal wife, Madam Ma, enjoys a secret affair with the magistrate Jo Yeong-sa and plots a terrible conspiracy. The two poison Ma Yuanwei to frame Jang Haedang for the crime, and to seize the Ma family’s vast fortune, they begin to insist that even the son Haedang bore is their own bloodline. To make matters worse, a midwife and neighbors bribed by Jo Yeong-sa provide false testimony, and after enduring brutal torture at the corrupt Jeongju magistrate’s office, Haedang is eventually escorted to the capital, Kaifeng, under false accusations. Bao the Great, a renowned official of Kaifeng Prefecture, is tasked with re-examining the case. In order to uncover the tangled truth and identify the true mother, he issues a bizarre ruling: he draws a circle of lime on the ground and orders the two women to pull on the child… Amidst lies stained with greed, will the blood-stained scream of the wronged woman ever reach the heavens?

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