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A New Approach to Inter-Korean Issues by Contemporary South Korean Theatre: With a Focus on the Division Trilogy by Creative VaQi
- Asian Theatre Journal
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 38, Number 1, Spring 2021
- pp. 306-328
- 10.1353/atj.2021.0014
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Abstract:
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Korean War in 2020, this paper aims to identify aspects of South Korea's division plays and examine how those produced around 2018 shed new light on the division. There has been a consistent output of plays exploring the division issue since the Korean War in the 1950s, but a new generation of theatre artists distance themselves from their predecessors with an entirely new approach to the subject. Amid a reconciliatory mood on the Korean Peninsula following the 2018 inter-Korean summit at the border village of Panmunjeom, inter-Korean division is emerging as a dominant theme in South Korean theatre. This paper discusses three plays by Creative VaQi: Walking Holiday, Love Story, and Brothers.
