Romeo and Juliet

Synopsis: Video recording of the Mokwha Repertory Company’s 2005 production of Romeo and Juliet directed by Oh Tae-suk which employs martial arts, live music, dance, ritual and gesture. Oh Tae-suk directs his actors always to face the audience when speaking, never each other.
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Duration: 100 mins

Director

Tae-suk Oh

Music

Gang Rok Hwang

Production Design

Eun A. Cho

Costume

Aikawa Masaaki; Seung Moo Lee

Cast

History: Produced by the Mokhwa Repertory Company at the National Theatre of Korea, Seoul, beginning 3 October 2005; at the Namsan Drama Center, Seoul, beginning 4 April 2006 and 24 October 2007; at the Kirari Fujimi, Tokyo, 14 July 2006; at the Barbican Pit Theatre, London, 23 November-9 December 2006; at the Busan Cultural Hall, Busan, beginning 5 May 2007; and on tour. It is not known from which performance the globalshakespeares video is filmed.
Reviews: Chaturvedi, Ravi.`Forcefulness of Love on the Korean Stage: Oh Tae-suk’s Romeo and Juliet.' in Lee, Hyon-U, Glocalizing Shakespeare in Korea and Beyond: 199-223. [Compares Tae-suk Oh’s Romeo and Juliet with an Indian production in "an attempt to discuss the semiotic commonalities and contradictions of Korean and Indian societies".] also Lee’s article "British Responses to Oh Tae-suk’s Romeo and Juliet at the Barbican Centre." in the same book.

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