School of Drama’s Play, “The Nape,” To Be Presented at the 2^nd Korean College Theater Festival & Guro Arts Valley

The School of Drama’s production, “The Nape,” will join the 2^nd Korean College Theater Festival, which begins on July 8. The event, hosted by Yongin Special City and organized by the Yongin Cultural Foundation, aims to encourage the passion and experimental spirit of college students studying theatre. Twelve college teams from across the country are participating this year.

In addition, “The Nape” will be staged at Guro Arts Valley from July 18 to 19. The Guro Cultural Foundation, in collaboration with the School of Drama at K-Arts, has run the Theatre Production Platform since 2020, providing young artists with local performance opportunities every year. In 2023, the two parties entered an official partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding. Since then, they have continued their collaboration to distribute, cultivate, and nurture quality cultural content.

“The Nape” is an adaptation of Euripides’ three tragedies – Iphigenia at Aulis, Agamemnon, and Electra – reinterpreted from a female perspective. The production was re-created into the contemporary context, adopting the traditional Korean mask dance (talchum) and puppet theatre. The work earned recognition, obtaining an accolade in directing at the 35^th Encounter in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in April.

Jeong Yeonbo, Director of the Guro Cultural Foundation, stated, “It’s very meaningful to present K-Arts’s outstanding performance like ‘The Nape,’ which just won an award at the Encounter in April, to the local community.”