Horse Trade Theater
Group
& Mocador Productions Present:
A Play About Love,
Surrealist Poetry and Diet Coke 
PRESS HIGHLIGHTS:
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Horse Trade Theater
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A Play About Love,
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Welcome to the strange and fantastic inner world of Korean surrealist writer Yi Sang. "Yi Sang Counts to Thirteen" re-imagines the darkly ironic, existential, and comic imagination of this brilliant writer of surreal, abstract poems and dark comic short stories. The play is set in a mathematical-theoretical world where Seoul, circa 1937, is grafted onto present day New York. BLUE (who could be Yi Sang) and RED (who could be his best friend) both fall in love with GREEN (an enigmatic woman). While BLUE tries to fly beyond the confines of his world, he finds solace in the fleeting moments shared with RED and GREEN. Twenty vignettes explore the dynamics of this complex love triangle while imagining the inner psyche of Yi Sang..a fantastic place where body parts assume roles in a detective noir; women perform exquisite ceromonies with Diet Coke; water is of spiritual importance; and the twisted geometry of a Moebius strip symbolizes an excess of subjectivity. |
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Winner, 2001 FringeNYC
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"As accessible as the Diet Coke that
provides one of its ongoing metaphors. It is sweet, not too heavy, and
has the right amount of fizz to shake things up."..TheaterMania.com
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10:30PM January 12th $15 Adults
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"Funny, morose and delicious to watch
but above all, intelligent and professional."..NYTheatre.com
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Yi Sang (whose name means "strange" in Korean) died at the age of 27 from tuberculosis while incarcerated in a Tokyo jail cell.
One of Korea's most revered writers, Yi Sang wrote poems and stories that resonate across cultural boundaries and still speak to us in fresh and surprising ways. |
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Starring: Deborah S. Craig* , Paul H. Juhn, C.S. Lee* Scene & Costume Design: Antje Ellerman
*Equity Approved Showcase |
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MOCADOR PRODUCTIONS was founded in 2000 with the goal of discovering new language, uncovering hidden symbols, and reformulating cultural gestures .. then translating them into challenging and entertaining forms of expression. |
Copyright 2002 Makaha Bay Design
Designer: Kimo DeSean
Listing updates, Schedule changes or Site feedback:
email:kimo@MakahaBay.net
Yi
Sang (1910-1937), a kind of Korean Kafka crossed with Rimbaud and Jim
Morrison, wrote the bulk of his work in the 1930s while Korea was under
the harsh colonial rule of Japan. 
SUNG
RNO's other plays include Cleveland Raining, Gravity Falls From Trees,
Drizzle And Other Stories, Principia, New World and Infinitude. His
work has been produced at East West Players, Asian American Theater
Company, Thick Description, Yale Cabaret and Ma-Yi Theater. He has a
B.A. from Harvard University, an M.F.A. from Brown University and is
a Dramatists Guild member. Yi Sang Counts To Thirteen had its debut
in Seoul, Korea at the Seoul Theater Festival 2000..directed by Lee
Breuer (co-artistic director of Mabou Mines, where Rno was a resident
artist in 1999). In 2002, Rno's play wAve will be produced at North
West Asian American Theater in Seattle.