The Fountain
The Best New Musical of the Year, Daegu International Musical Theater Festival, 2012
Libretto and Directed by Namoo Chae Lee/ Music by Paul Castles/ Piano by Arana Kim/ Lighting by Ingon Cho/ Starring Jemi Kyung, Inhwa Park, Dongseok Oh/ Photographed by Yoonsu Sohn
“ Strong images, symbolic movements, big subject matter and Duchamp? This will call a new trend to current Korean musical theater scene.”
— Hokyung Kim, News Culture
A women’s bathroom. Two woman who think they are at the edge of their lives meet the toilet thief who is in search of Duchamp’s fountain. In the course of his persuading them the existence of the Fountain and the importance of the lives, he himself got frustrated and attempts suicide. At that very moment, we find a baby. And a fountain, a fountain of life.
“Nothing but three toilets and three characters who keeps 'pooping'. For those who are metaphorically constipated in this modern society.”
– Hokyung Kim, News Culture