Quad, Questions of Theatre: 〈Flame〉

Twins Jeanne and Simon have kept silent for the past five years, then fall into great confusion upon checking the will of their late mother Nawal. It asks them to find the father they thought dead and the sibling they never knew existed, and to deliver the letters she left. It also contains her request that she be buried at her funeral without a coffin or gravestone. The siblings set off following their mother's traces and gradually approach the veiled past of their mother. At the end of that past, the siblings face a shocking truth about their mother's silence.

Program

〈2026 Quad, Questions of Theater: Evolving Text〉
This project focuses on 'text', the essence of theatre, and explores the present and future of contemporary theatre through the power of plays that are constantly reinterpreted anew across time. From William Shakespeare to modern plays and contemporary Korean theatre texts, five works evolve anew through five master directors—Kim A-ra, Kim Gwang-bo, Kim Woo-ok, Lee Seong-yeol, and Han Tae-sook—who led the golden age of Korean theatre.
〈Flames〉
〈Flame〉 depicts the journey of twin siblings tracing the truth amid a history of war and massacre. In the process, it reveals the structure of repeating hatred and focuses on 'love as will' as the power to break it. This work, which exquisitely revives the myth of the Greek tragedy 〈Oedipus〉 as a modern myth, makes contemporary audiences face violence and responsibility and expands its perspective beyond individual tragedy to the question of human dignity.