“That’s something for the vice-minister, no less”: A Korean Fairytale in the State Puppet Theatre in Gdańsk
This article discusses the circumstances of the staging of the play Arirang in a Polish puppet theatre. This dramatised Korean fairy tale was based on short stories by Dr Tonchu Ru, a Korean living in the Polish People’s Republic, whose biography constitutes a separate important thread of the story...
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| Language: | English |
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Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences
2025-06-01
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| Series: | Pamiętnik Teatralny |
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| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.ispan.pl/index.php/pt/article/view/4173 |
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| Summary: | This article discusses the circumstances of the staging of the play Arirang in a Polish puppet theatre. This dramatised Korean fairy tale was based on short stories by Dr Tonchu Ru, a Korean living in the Polish People’s Republic, whose biography constitutes a separate important thread of the story. The play premiered on 31st October 1953, four months later than originally planned; this was due to the hostilities on the Korean Peninsula, which forced the producers to get involved in ministry-level exchanges and special diplomacy. Affected by the pressure of a centrally controlled message about the war, the staging was part the Polish ‘engaged’ artists response to the armed conflict in a ‘brotherly’ country. In the face of this conflict, the Polish-Korean ‘parallels’ identified for decades gained a new context, and with it a socialist realist costume.
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| ISSN: | 0031-0522 2658-2899 |