The Cherry Orchard 벚꽃동산

Simon Stone is an award-winning writer and director working across theatre, opera and screen. He has worked with many companies internationally, with highlights including Yerma for the Young Vic (winner of the 2017 Olivier Award for Best Revival which transferred to the Park Avenue Armory) and Medea for Internationaal Theatre Amsterdam (ITA), which was then produced by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). He adapted the former into The Daughter, his debut feature film. His many operas include the Olivier Award-winning Innocence (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Royal Opera House London, San Francisco Opera, Finnish National Opera, Dutch National Opera, Adelaide Festival and The Met in 2026). His most recent play, The Lady from the Sea (after Ibsen) premiered in September 2025 at The Bridge Theatre in London and his most recent feature film, The Woman in Cabin 10 starring Keira Knightley, premiered on Netflix in October 2025.

Doyeon Jeon is a South Korean actress. She made her film debut with The Contact (1997), a melodrama that established her as a leading actress. Her career reached new heights with You Are My Sunshine (2005). However, it was her role in Secret Sunshine (2007), directed by Lee Chang-dong, that cemented her status as one of Korea’s finest actresses. Her portrayal of a grieving mother navigating faith and despair won her Best Actress at the 60th Cannes Film Festival, making her the first Korean actor to receive such recognition.

Haesoo Park is a South Korean actor. He is best known worldwide for portraying Sangwoo Cho in the first season of the Netflix hit series Squid Game, which earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Park started his career in theatre and has played many leading and supporting roles in plays and musicals. In 2014, he performed in The Chorus – Oedipus which was later presented by the Singapore International Festival of Arts. He subsequently expanded his career into film and television and achieved his breakthrough with Prison Playbook, one of the highest-rated Korean dramas.

Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and writer. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov renounced the theatre after the reception of The Seagull in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Uncle Vanya and premiered his last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a “theatre of mood” and a “submerged life in the text”. The plays that Chekhov wrote were not complex, but easy to follow, and created a somewhat haunting atmosphere for the audience.

LG Arts Center is managed by the LG Yonam Culture Foundation, a non-profit organisation affiliated with LG Group. Since opening in 2000, LG Arts Center has been at the forefront of Korea’s performing arts scene, presenting world-class artists and cutting-edge contemporary works. In parallel, it has steadily expanded its commissioning and producing strand, creating and touring original productions through collaborations among Korean and international artists. Following its relocation to western Seoul in 2022, LG Arts Center has premiered large-scale new works with top-tier Korean actors, including Doyeon Jeon, Haesoo Park, and Youngae Lee, and partnered with leading international directors on major productions such as The Cherry Orchard (2024) and Hedda Gabler (2025). These flagship productions affirm LG Arts Center’s dual identity as an exceptional producing theatre and a vibrant hub of artistic creativity and exchange on the world stage.