First Dean Kim Wu-ok of School of Drama directs the Double Gothic

Professor Kim Wu-ok, the first dean of the School of Drama, staged his theatrical work, “Double Gothic,” at the opening of the 7th Ever Green Drama Festival for the first time in 22 years since his retirement. The play, “Double Gothic,” staged at The Zoom Arts Center from 21 October to 6 November, is based on the original work by the master of structuralist play, Michael Stanley Kirby (1931-1997), premiered in the late 1970s in Off-Off-Broadway, New York. In Korea, Kim Wu-ok premiered the piece in 1982 when he was the representative of the Dong-Rang Repertory Company.

The plot unfolds as the two horror stories, scrutinizingly structured, intertwine. The stories seem irrelevant, yet they share the same structure. Unlike the conventional play, the audience can spot the commons and differences between the stories as in playing the puzzles. The six-stage cubes rotate and move around. Actors and actresses Jeon Sohyeon, Lee Yunpyo, Kim Jiyeong, Kim Kwangduk, Kwon Seul-a, and Lee Ara performed this time.