NOHspace Presents: Chan Park and Kathy Foley
Fox Hunts and Freedom Fighters: Korean and Western Women in Seoul 1894-1920
- When
- Event has passed (Mon Sep 14, 2009 - Tue Sep 15, 2009)
- Cost
- $15 - $20
- Tags
- Theater, Performance Arts
Description
Korean pansori story singing, porcelain dolls and powerful acting bring to life tales of remarkable women: martyred Queens and Victorian women who defied gender to help change their world, and a straight-laced missionary trying to curb her radical student as she called for national independence at the first Korean school for girls. Cross-cultural encounters fuse Korean and American arts in this new work from the renowned pansori singer Chan Park and puppeteer-director Kathy Foley.Noted Englishwoman geographer Isabella Bird came to Seoul as Korean Queen Min struggled with Japanese and Western colonialism as the "hermit kingdom" was forced to open to Western trade and missions. The women's friendship grew even as a plot for the assassination of the queen, “Operation Foxhunt,” was being hatched. The history of early Korean-Western exchange is seen in the lives of two women who redefined what it meant to be female.
More Info
- Link
- http://www.nohspace.org
- Call
- 415-621-0507
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- 415-621-7978 (Box Office)
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