National Theater Company of KOREA

NTCK works with international artists and theatres who share their artistic passion and love of theater with the global community, in order to challenge and stimulate the Korean theater. NTCK hopes to be an international center for theater where various exciting collaborations and co-productions are created and attract international acclaim.

·   Bokko Chan (toured)

Bokko Chan (toured)
  • Based on“short-short SF stories” by Hoshi Shinichi
  • Adapted byIn-chul Chun & actors
  • Directed byIn-chul Chun
  • Produced byNTCK

NTCK’s production of Bokko Chan (winner of Best Director, Best Stage Art and Best Actor at Dong·A Play Awards) was introduced to Japanese audiences in partnership with Tokyo Metropolitan Theater. Admired by fans of science fiction all over the world, Shinichi Hoshi best known for his signature “short-short” stories. The omnibus play Bokko Chan comprises episodes based on Hoshi’s stories about life and death. The premiere run was applauded by critics and audiences alike, and raised the Japanese author’s profile in Korea. Each of the short episodes teems with Hoshi’s dystopian vision for the future, humanism and humor; even those unfamiliar with science fiction are warmly invited into his creative world. Since Bokko Chan had not been performed in Japan before, a great number of Japanese theater makers and audiences flocked to Tokyo Metropolitan Theater to watch Hoshi’s latest work of genius.

 

toured at Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Japan)

·   Interiors

Interiors
  • Inspired byIntérior (1894) by Maurice Maeterlinck
  • Directed byMatthew Lenton
  • Produced byVanishing Point (Scotland)

Over the past twenty years, Scottish theater company Vanishing Point has been widely celebrated for its series of unique and thought-provoking works. Inspired by the play Intérieur by Nobel laureate Maurice Maeterlinck, Interiors proposes a new view of voyeurism. Laced with voice-over narration, the play observes through a window a group of people having a dinner party at the height of winter. It repeatedly reaffirms the preposition that “There is more than meets the eye.” Winner of Critics’ Awards for Theatre Scotland, Interiors prompts a consideration of solitude and humans as social animals that require relationships with others.