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Cho-in Theatre previews their return to Edinburgh

02-Jul-08

Cho-in Theatre previews their return to Edinburgh

The Cho-in Theatre Company ended their two-week tour of England at the KCC on Monday. They're now off to the Avignon Festival before returning for their now regular slot at the Edinburgh Fringe in August. Cho-in was founded in 2002 by Chung-euy Park. It has a wily eye on the international market, with its productions generally non-verbal, and having hired an English international manager (Lucinda Walker - right), who introduced the company to the KCC audience this week. The company's first two productions sound homely enough. Their brochure says introduces their first production, The Train (70 mins), thus: This beautiful Korean folktale explores the fragility of everyday life, and the endurance of human love. Similarly, the second production: The Angel and the Woodcutter is a ...
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Korean Artists at the Edinburgh Fringe

25-Jun-08

Korean Artists at the Edinburgh Fringe

I spotted that the Cho-in Theatre Company are putting on a performance at the KCC this coming Monday (30 June). A still from their production The Angel and the Woodcutter is shown on the right. This notice got me thinking about the Edinburgh Fringe, which was choc-full of Korean talent last year. Same again this year, with the emphasis on "physical theatre", including the b-boy crew who gave us the "Ballerina who loves b-boys" last year. Some more traditional performances as well. Here's the results of typing "Korea" into the Edinburgh Fringe website. Do check the website for any changes, and for venue details. Yo! Chunhyang - A Pansori Musical of Chunhyang Fusion musical retelling of Korea's Chunhyangga legend, mixing Western music and traditional ...
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Korean Film in Edinburgh

15-Jun-08

Korean Film in Edinburgh

Films by Koreans, films about Koreans. At the Edinburgh Film Festival: The Mouse Trap (Gee-dut) 23 JUN 14:00 24 JUN 21:15 Woon Han / South Korea / 2007 / 6 mins Showing as part of International Animation 1 The Juche Idea 24 JUN 17:30 25 JUN 21:45 Jim Finn / United States of America / 2008 / 62 mins Art? Propaganda? Dubious cultural profiling? North Korean political kitsch explored… Cadaver (Haebuhak-gyosil) 23 JUN 22:00 27 JUN 23:45 Derek Son / South Korea / 2007 / 111 mins The hot new South Korean horror – catch it first here. Milky Way Liberation Front 19 JUN 20:00 26 JUN 15:00 Yoon Seong-ho / South Korea / 2007 / 101 mins Are you ready for South Korea’s Living in Oblivion? Life Track 23 JUN 20:15 25 JUN 19:15 Jin Guang-hao / South Korea, China ...
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