My Aunt in Texas, returns to Goesan!

“You think she came here to make ends meet? No, she came here to live better-off.”

My aunt went all the way to Texas to follow a man named Richard who she met in town. She dreamed of a life where she gracefully drinks cups of coffee in a beautiful bikini but it turned out her actual life is like…a dried up ear of corn.

36 years later, a woman came to study in Goesan from Kyrgyzstan. She dreamed of returning home as a successful person, but found herself holding a hoe rather than a book. Her life is like…the last crumb of lepyoshka.

Here, a place filled with the sound of wind and the songs of bugs, the lives of the two women unfold like a decalcomania.

A new work of Yun Mi-hyun pierces the audience’s heart with her vivid and lively words

Yun Mi-hyun, the writer of Going out with the Basket, the NTCK play that received the most recommendations in 2017, returns. Under the experienced direction of Choi Yong-hoon, the vivid and sudden lines spoken on the stage cut into the dark side of our society.

This performance is presented and produced based on the work selected by the ASAC Creative Drama Contest of 2017, by the Ansan Arts Center.

"Even though we experience alienation and abuse, the consciousness of this reality has sharpened the people of our society into revealing and ostracizing the perpetrators.” -Commentary-

Playwright

Yun Mi-hyun

Yun made a debut through the Korean Playwrights Association’s drama competition in 2013, and has earned attention thanks to unique narratives that go beyond the conventional grammar of theater. By using realistic expressions and a paradoxical style of drama, she overcomes the depressive self-portrait of society and boldly breaks away from the repetitive and ordinary.

Major Works

Shall We Meet in the Interview Room?, The Killer’s Garden, Pyeongsang,

A Young Fucidin - A Lovu Story, There Is Place Like Home,

A woman in Red Who I Met in Gyeongbokgung Palace, Cheolsoo’s Uprising

Younghee, Who Wanted to Eat Cream Bread, Jangpan, Chest, Going Out with the Basket

Awards

2017 My Aunt in Texas won the Grand Prize at The 4th ASAC Creative Play Competition

2016 Jangpan won the Play Award at The Seoul Theater Festival

Younghee, Who Wanted to Eat Cream Bread won the Gold Prize at The Korea National Play Competition

2015 Cheolsoo’s Uprising won the Excellence Award at The Daejon Creative Play Competition

2015 The New Faces of the Drama at The Daesan Foundation

2012 Pyeongsang won the Drama Competion at The Seoul Theater Association

Director

Choi Yong-hoon

In pursuit of a pure play, he has led the theater company ZakEunShinHwaLittle Myth for the last three decades. As a representative director in the theater world, he is committed to advancing creative drama in Korea through a movement called Making the Creative Play. Currently, he is professor of Musical Theater Performance at Chungwoon University.

Major Works

Chimerica, The Great Expectations, Skylight, How to Eat Food Deliciously, Cola Girl,

Dol-nal (The First Birthday Party), The Samguk-Yusa Project - Dream, Amy, Dom Juan,

Mr. Kimchi Soup got Mad, A Yellow Dog’s Love Story, The Family on the Road, Doctor Book,

The Silent Guest, Going out with the Basket

Awards

2016 The Director of the Year at The Korea Theater Directors Association

2010 Kim Sang-yeol Awards

2003 This Year’s Man of the Theater at Hee-seo Awards

2002 The Best Drama and Best Director Awards at the Donga Theater Awards

1999 The Best Drama and Best Director Awards at the Donga Theater Awards

1998 President’s Commendation Prime Minister’s Commendation