The Story of Those Unrecorded by History

Bae Sam-sik, one of the most popular Korean writers of today, who won the Dong·A Play Award and other renowned awards, has introduced a new work after six years of absence from his last play: Snow of March. After the abrupt defeat of Japan in the Pacific War and the liberation of the Korean peninsula, refugees from Manchuria faced another war on their way home. The play shows two girls, Myung-sook and Mizuko, who escaped the comfort women facility of the Japanese military. Also, there is an intellectual who teaches the Korean language to people with a nationalistic ideology, even though he had to send his children to a Japanese school. Another character is a man who blames his brother, one of the independence fighters, for breaking his family apart into chaos and abandonment. The play shows the story of people who struggled hard to survive in the most difficult era of Korean history. Where will these people go with such desperation?

“We Can Go Together If You Abandon That Japanese Woman”

After the liberation of Korea in 1945, the people of Joseon who moved to Machuria wished to return to their home. They stayed in a war victim shelter and waited for the train that heads back homeward. However, Myung-sook wants to go back to her home with Mizuko, since they escaped from the throes of death together. Myung-sook introduces Mizuko as her sister with a speech impairment to bring her safely home. Despite poverty, disease and persecution from Chinese people, the two girls finally get their tickets to Joseon and ride the train.

Writer Bae Sam-sik

Since his first work the Tale of the White Circle (1998), writer Bae became one of the most popular writers in contemporary Korea with works of various genres, including original plays, adapted plays, drama, Korean traditional opera and musicals. He won the Daesan Literary Award and Dong·A Play Award with Yeolha Ilgi Manbo (2007), the KIM Sang-yul Play Award with Gertrude (2008), the Dong·A Play Award with The White Cherry (2009) as well as the Cha Bum-suk Play Award with The Woman from Far Away (2015). Currently, he is working as a professor at the Department of Creative Writing, Dongduk Women's University.

Director Ryu Joo-yeon

Director of the performance group Sansuyu

Director Ryu is famous for expressing the vivid emotions of a variety of different personality types, along with forging a strong bond of empathy with audiences. By directing a number of adapted plays, such as Gilgok-myeon Changnyeong-gun Gyeongsangnam-do, the Slough and 12 Angry Men, she overcame the limitation of regional content by translating the play with a focus on the natural expression of emotions, so that audiences can understand the plot more clearly. She won the 47th Dong·A Play Award with the Weird Journey (2010) and the 4th Best Play of the EDAILY Culture Awards with 12 Angry Men.