The shocking true story of Nick Berg who was beheaded by Al Qaeda.

The performance opens up a new horizon in Korea’s original theater!

Honored with various theater accolades including the prestigious Dong-A Play Awards and the Korea Theater Awards, Jang Woo-Jae is an established playwright and director noted for his works, including <Sunshine Shower> and <The Train from the Past>. Jang created <American Father> with his sharp insight of society and his passion to head out to the United States in order to find traces of a terrorism victim after coming across a letter of an American father who lost his son to terrorists. Unmasking the contemporary downfall and vividly depicting the collapse of an individual, the work impacted the audience significantly with the playwright’s imagination added to the true story. And finally, this September, <American Father>, produced intricately and solidly through three stages, is completed at Myeongdong Theater.

Who is killing them!

A father who used to be successful now lives off his son, addicted to alcohol and drugs. His son works as a stock broker, but is disillusioned with capitalism. The life of this ordinary father and son starts to jolt after colliding with the shock of terrorism and war. The role of the father, who has no choice but to feel extreme hatred and fury, is intensified and impacted when he meets the actor Yoon Sang-hwa, an irreplaceable actor who kept his status since the premiere. What kind of a self-portrait will we see from the American father of a foreign land across the ocean. One will find out who killed them and who it is trying to kill us in this war-like era.

“It felt as if I watched a whole movie.” - Interpark spapil***

“I could not get up even after the lights turned back on.”- Interpark dlguswjd0***

“Yoon Sang-hwa’s enthusiastic performance calls for an endless applause of curtain calls. His intense emotions conveyed through his lines, silence, and eyes still resonates in me.”- Newsculture

Synopsis

Year 2000, Jersey City, New York, a town next to Manhattan. Will, a talented man working as a stockbroker, decides to go to South Sudan to do volunteer work in search for his dream. His father Bill, a drug addict living off of Will, starts a fight and argues that the only way to escape capitalism is to make as much money as possible. And a few months later, Bill who was left alone comes across a video of his son being beheaded, broadcast live to the entire world. How did they get entangled in the Iraq war?

Written and directed by  Jang Woo-jae