The Anxiety of Edgar Allan Poe
piac
2023-12-11
● Information about Performance
▶ Author: Jin-Hwan, Ra based on Adgar Allan Poe’s novel,
▶ Genre: Theatre
▶ Director: Jin-Hwan, Ra
▶ Number of performer: 3 actors
▶ Scenographer: Il-Jin, Im
▶ Choreographer: Ho-Bin, Park
▶ Lighting Designer: Guk-Gun, Yeo
▶ Running Time: 110 minutes
▶ Genre: Theater
▶ The dates of Performance: sept, 2022
▶ Size of Stage: Small stage
● Summary of Performance:
This work is the XIIth piece in the “Humanistic Reflection Series” pursued by the theater company PIAC and begins with the following question.
“Why are contemporary people anxious and anxious? Can we know the source of anxiety?”
“What kind of behavior do humans show in anxiety. Can’t we live without anxiety?”
“What would it look like, if anxiety is personified?”
In order to reveal the 'anxiety' that contomporary people suffer from, director, JinHwan Ra create a story based on mystery novel master Edgar Allan Poe's The Man of the Crowd, The Tell Tale Heart, and The Black Cat through the perspective of anxiety and tells anxiety. It reveals a sad self-portrait of human existence.
The Anxiety of Edgar Allan Poe is embodied by Theater-Dance form, a symbolic stage, live streaming, and an intense psychological acting battle between actors Kim So-hee and Han Yun-chun during 110 minutes.
Audiences will be able to experience the inner anxieties and fears of contemporary people through the play’s “fatal contagiousness.”
● Synopsis:
After an unnamed illness, the unnamed narrator sits in an unnamed cafe in London. He is fascinated by the crowd outside the window and discovers an old man. The narrator dashes out of the cafe to follow the man from afar out of curiosity, or rather, some inexplicable feeling. As night begins to fall on the city, the narrator pursues the old man throughout the city until dawn, but in the end he is unable to determine the old man's identity. The old man goes into the house and becomes an old man with scary eagle eyes, and the narrator decides to kill the old man out of fear and anxiety out of those eyes...
▶ Author: Jin-Hwan, Ra based on Adgar Allan Poe’s novel,
▶ Genre: Theatre
▶ Director: Jin-Hwan, Ra
▶ Number of performer: 3 actors
▶ Scenographer: Il-Jin, Im
▶ Choreographer: Ho-Bin, Park
▶ Lighting Designer: Guk-Gun, Yeo
▶ Running Time: 110 minutes
▶ Genre: Theater
▶ The dates of Performance: sept, 2022
▶ Size of Stage: Small stage
● Summary of Performance:
This work is the XIIth piece in the “Humanistic Reflection Series” pursued by the theater company PIAC and begins with the following question.
“Why are contemporary people anxious and anxious? Can we know the source of anxiety?”
“What kind of behavior do humans show in anxiety. Can’t we live without anxiety?”
“What would it look like, if anxiety is personified?”
In order to reveal the 'anxiety' that contomporary people suffer from, director, JinHwan Ra create a story based on mystery novel master Edgar Allan Poe's The Man of the Crowd, The Tell Tale Heart, and The Black Cat through the perspective of anxiety and tells anxiety. It reveals a sad self-portrait of human existence.
The Anxiety of Edgar Allan Poe is embodied by Theater-Dance form, a symbolic stage, live streaming, and an intense psychological acting battle between actors Kim So-hee and Han Yun-chun during 110 minutes.
Audiences will be able to experience the inner anxieties and fears of contemporary people through the play’s “fatal contagiousness.”
● Synopsis:
After an unnamed illness, the unnamed narrator sits in an unnamed cafe in London. He is fascinated by the crowd outside the window and discovers an old man. The narrator dashes out of the cafe to follow the man from afar out of curiosity, or rather, some inexplicable feeling. As night begins to fall on the city, the narrator pursues the old man throughout the city until dawn, but in the end he is unable to determine the old man's identity. The old man goes into the house and becomes an old man with scary eagle eyes, and the narrator decides to kill the old man out of fear and anxiety out of those eyes...
