The Cherry Orchard 벚꽃동산

Simon Stone is an Australian writer and director, widely regarded as one of the most acclaimed theatremakers in the world. Born in Basel and educated at Cambridge, Stone returned to Australia in 2007 to found The Hayloft Project. The company’s first production, Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening, helped to establish and cement its reputation. He quickly became known as an inspiring director with a unique style. He likes to take pieces from the standard repertoire which, with the help of his cast, he reworks into intimate, almost cinematic performances. He often works on the basis of improvisation and characterisations suggested by a play, creating an entirely new script through which the original nevertheless shines. Stone frequently returns to the classics and mythology because he believes that they raise all the essential questions about the human condition. “You cannot make theatre based on fear or compromises; without polemics there is no art.”

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 a non-profit performing arts centre with the purpose of returning corporate profit to society through the creation and exchange of culture and performing arts. By supporting culture and arts and fostering creative activities, it strives to present diverse values and contribute to the development of performance culture in Korea, introducing trends of contemporary performing arts and leading change in the Korean performance industry. The Center is a pioneering institution in the Korean contemporary performing arts scene, consistently presenting world-class performances not to be missed.