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Son Hyun-kyu

‘Traurigkeit & Melancholie oder Der aller aller einsamste George aller aller Zeiten’

‘Traurigkeit & Melancholie oder Der aller aller einsamste George aller aller Zeiten’

Son Hyun-kyu’s new project is an adaptation of Bonn Park’s play, Traurigkeit & Melancholie oder Der aller aller einsamste Georgealler aller Zeiten. It is a philosophical fantasy tale that follows the inner world of the Galápagos tortoise, George, a giant endangered species who has existed since the beginning of the world. He possesses a memory far older than human beings, and has endured countless wars, love, giving up, failures, sex, seasons, and betrayal, yet he remains an ‘unspeakable being.’ In this solo piece, actor Kim Si Yu leads the play, covering dozens of voices and senses by operating objects and switching between various media forms on stage. The play investigates how an uncommunicative being lives with melancholy, and asks what the texture of that being’s emotion is composed of. When George declares, “You are not listening to anybody now,” on stage, audiences achieve a new perspective on George’s solitude and the meaning of existence

Son Hyun-kyu

Son Hyun-kyu is a director who is known for his experiment of convergence theater, staging multiple themes of theater and technology, objects, and philosophy. As a leading artist and director of Creative Group Kkol, Son has directed works by various playwrights, sometimes adapting them, developing his own sense of narrative structure. Expanding his boundaries as an original playwright, he focuses on diverse subjects such as post-humanism, AI, gender, the climate crisis, labor, loss, and the articulation of feeling—all related to the most transformative issues of our time. His work often explores a multidisciplinary stage structure that reveals the materiality of emotion and the image of thought, rather than a traditional theatrical narrative.