Not the entire book – We Do Not Part, the new masterpiece by Han Kang – but rather shards of reality and dream, of historic trauma and poetry. The events focus on the 1948-uprising on the island of Jeji, in South Korea, when thirty thousand civilians were killed. It is an open wound that continues to torment two friends, just as it did the mother of one of them.
One day, Kyungha receives a message from her friend Inseon, who lives on Jeju Island, in South Korea. She was injured while woodworking, and has been transported to the mainland, but she left a small bird at home who risks starving to death. In her novel We do not part, the author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Han Kang takes on one of the darkest moments in Korean history: the bloody repression of the Jeju uprising in 1948.
Daria Deflorian explores and examines this disturbing work, sharing Han Kang’s refusal to reduce tragedies to the names of the cities involved and the number of deaths. In order to approach a past that refuses to pass, one needs to abandon oneself to the fragility of humanity and to everything that, inevitably, touches us. Perhaps, doing so, «we will be welcomed among the ghosts».
Through the lifetime research of a dear friend, the story explores the way in which the brutal and overwhelming nature of violence flattens all forms of individuality, but also how steadfast hope can save a forgotten individual, touching on and illuminating the lives of other victims.
Show in Italian with English and Italian surtitles by Prescott Studio.
Please note that surtitles are not visible from stalls row 4 (seats from 2 to 5, and from 52 to 55), row 5 (seats from 1 to 13, and from 44 to 56); first and second balconies (seats from 1 to 7, and from 42 to 48); third balcony (seats from 3 to 7, and from 42 to 46).
Duration: the play is currently in production
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One day, Kyungha receives a message from her friend Inseon, who lives on Jeju Island, in South Korea. She was injured while woodworking, and has been transported to the mainland, but she left a small bird at home who risks starving to death. In her novel We do not part, the author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Han Kang takes on one of the darkest moments in Korean history: the bloody repression of the Jeju uprising in 1948.
Daria Deflorian explores and examines this disturbing work, sharing Han Kang’s refusal to reduce tragedies to the names of the cities involved and the number of deaths. In order to approach a past that refuses to pass, one needs to abandon oneself to the fragility of humanity and to everything that, inevitably, touches us. Perhaps, doing so, «we will be welcomed among the ghosts».
Through the lifetime research of a dear friend, the story explores the way in which the brutal and overwhelming nature of violence flattens all forms of individuality, but also how steadfast hope can save a forgotten individual, touching on and illuminating the lives of other victims.
Show in Italian with English and Italian surtitles by Prescott Studio.
Please note that surtitles are not visible from stalls row 4 (seats from 2 to 5, and from 52 to 55), row 5 (seats from 1 to 13, and from 44 to 56); first and second balconies (seats from 1 to 7, and from 42 to 48); third balcony (seats from 3 to 7, and from 42 to 46).
Duration: the play is currently in production
Credits
Che dolore terribile è l’amore – Work in progress
based on We Do Not Part by Han Kang
dramaturgy and directing by Daria Deflorian
with Anna Coppola, Daria Deflorian, Monica Piseddu
project shared with Monica Piseddu and Andrea Pizzalis
dramaturg Eric Vautrin
set designer and director’s assistant Andrea Pizzalis
lighting designer Giulia Pastore
sound designer Emanuele Pontecorvo
costume designer Ettore Lombardi
technical director Enrico Maso
artistic consultant Attilio Scarpellini
dramaturgy collaboration Nikolai Palmieri
for INDEX Valentina Bertolino, Francesco Di Stefano
an INDEX production
co-produced with Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale, Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa, Teatro di Roma – Teatro Nazionale, Festival d’Avignon, théâtre Garonne, scène européenne – Toulouse
distribution in France théâtre Garonne, scène européenne – Toulouse
in collaboration with of the Korean Cultural Center in Italy, L’arboreto - Teatro Dimora di Mondaino, Centro di Residenza Emilia-Romagna, Residenza Olinda/TeatroLaCucina
with the support of MiC – the Italian Ministry of Culture
copyright © Han Kang 2021
copyright © Adelphi 2024
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