QUAD, Questions of Theater: <Flames>
Nov 14 – Dec 6, 2026 · Seoul
Overview
Twins Jeanne and Simon, who have kept nothing but silence between them for the past five years, are thrown into great confusion upon reading the will of their late mother, Nawal. The will asks them to find the father they had believed was dead and a brother whose existence they never even knew about, and to deliver to them letters she left behind. It also contained her request to be buried without a coffin or a headstone. The siblings set out following their mother's traces, drawing ever closer to her veiled past. And at the end of that past, the siblings come face to face with a shocking truth about their mother's silence.
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An old, worn-out multi-family house on the outskirts of Seoul. Neighbors, each carrying their own stories and hardships, live out their lives there. One scorching summer day, all the peppers disappear from the small rooftop garden where the elderly 'Gwangja' has been modestly growing them.
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QUAD, Questions of Theater: 〈Dance of the Revolution〉
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Quad, Questions of Theater: 〈The Train to Xi'an〉
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On a train racing toward the Lishan Mausoleum in Xi'an, China, Sanggon is filled with anticipation for the underground palace of Qin Shi Huang and the countless terracotta warriors he is about to encounter. As Sanggon recalls the image of Qin Shi Huang, who desired eternity within a finite life, and thinks of the things in his own life he has 'never once fully had,' the train arrives in Xi'an before he knows it. A Korean person with a Chinese mother, a person whose love has never once been fully repaid. Standing before Qin Shi Huang's desire for immortality, what is Sanggon's own desire in life? Sanggon, who has lived his whole life on the 'periphery,' stands before the grandest story of all and looks at himself. Only now, before that immense desire, does he finally look into his own story.
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