Life, Once Again!

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Break down the fourth wall. It was a word that came out of the lecture before the practice began. It is woven into stages, auditoriums, and physical spaces, but there is an implicit wall in between. The fourth wall is installed by actors and audiences to make reality and play another fact in reality.

Actors see an audience. The audience also sees actors. But there is a transparent wall between them. Visible but invisible wall.

The wall acts like a TV brown tube. Audiences in the audience use the wall to emotionally separate the distance from the stage that cannot be physically dropped. The audience forgets their reality by watching the play through the wall, and the actors use the opaque wall to create their reality.

“I tried to be comedic, but I wanted to hear more. The story of us all. So I decided to focus on the individual. ”

A black line will be drawn on the whiteboard. Kanghwan painted quite a spectacular view of the stage. Painting is pretty good.

“I abandoned the subject. This stage is for the audience. ”

It was a lecture to put a sharp crown on the ‘Audience’ letter written on the board.

“The topic of the day is determined by the audience who came on this stage that day. Maybe it's a happy story, maybe it's sad. We're going to put the finishing touches on the story tempo and take the next person off the stage in the audience. ”

“What if people are ashamed and don't show up? ”

Days opened my mouth.

“You need to keep a safety in place every time. If you don't have an audience coming up with someone in advance, I'll call them. He's a cheater.”

“Squeeze and hit! ”

“Let's call it a choreography. It doesn't look like much of a squeeze. ”

Kanghwan wrote "Audience First Anyway" on the board.

“Have you all read the script? That's the basic framework. But since you have a tendency to improvise, you'll need to be quick. The audience comes up and talks, but if you don't hit the beat, neither will I. ”

When I heard that, the floor said,

“How do you practice? ”

“I plan to work on the main flow and divide it up from situation to situation. Once big, happy part, sad part. The joy part won't be difficult, but the problem is sadness. ”

Kanghwan told me to open the script. Three people sitting in front of the board opened the script on their knees.

“I think it's important to know how far we and the audience can share this Patos. The pole always appeals to the audience with a strong Patos. They say actors interact with audiences, but objectively, extreme emotions are one-way street. From actors to audiences, actors can create more detailed emotions by watching their reactions, but the roots of the prepared play don't change. But communication is completely different. Two-way. We get the hearts of the audience, we get the minds of the audience. ”

"Sadness" was written on the board by Kanghwan.

“But this sadness is too much variation. The emotional stages of joy can be blurred. It's good to be full and good to win the lottery, but even if you put it in the same joy frame, there's no problem in expressing it. Because the audience is emotionally reluctant to accept it. But grief is quite tricky. ”

As the floor nods once, Kanghwan shifts the vodka marker. The marker, which was emitting a black string with a beep, stops moving and a new piece of writing settles on the board.

Death of a loved one.

And the child who lost 100 won below with a space.

Two sentences of steel turned around.

“Can we put this together under the category of grief? It's sad to lose someone you love, and sad to lose money, too. ”

“Yes, we can put it in. ”

Days have passed. The steeple points to days of detection.

“Exactly. That's the answer, the nuance. ‘Maybe we can put it in.' What do you mean by" a few days "? ”

“The strength of grief is different from the loss of 100 won by a loved one. ”

“Yes, that's the difficulty of grief. By changing the example, you have a loved one and you have won 100 won. Can these two fit within the pleasure category? ”

“Yes.”

“Do you think it would be strange to say that both laugh loudly in expressing this? ”

“No, it's not weird. ”

“But grief is a different story. Right?"

“Yes.”

Hannah, who was sitting next to the board, gets up and walks toward the refrigerator.

“Maybe we should have a drink. Brother, take it. ”

Hannah looked back at the board as she received a swift drink. Kanghwan opened his mouth after drinking a sip of water.

“Sadness is inclusive and individual. It seems borderline, but it's not. The death of a man and the loss of a small fortune. Just to put it this way, there are extreme differences between these two, and they look like different sadnesses. All right, here we go. ”

Kanghwan erased 'the death of a loved one’ and wrote ‘the death of a family member’, followed by ‘the death of a colleague at work.'

“Which one of these two is sadder? Just thinking straight.”

“Perhaps the death of the family. ”

“The same death, but it's natural that the death of someone closer to me feels relatively sadder, right? ”

“Yes.”

He put the empty cans next to him for a few days.

“Then how about this? The death of a co-worker and the death of a nearby superowner. What about these two? ”

“Then the death of a colleague at work would be even sadder. ”

“Because it's closer to me? ”

“Yes.”

“What about the death of the superowner and the death of the fruit shop owner? Assuming they were both similarly close. ”

“Well, it's hard to share what's sadder. ”

Kanghwan nods once.

“As I get further and further away from the fence, the concentration of sadness fades. Imagine the death of a man in a foreign country with no extreme name. It's not gonna be much of a thrill. As a matter of fact, yes, if I just turn on the TV right now, I can see the death toll rising in senseless numbers. Someone died in an accident on a road, someone died in a house fire somewhere, someone killed themselves. Death in the same context, but the sadness we accept.... ”

The flooring, stared at by Kanghwan, opened its mouth.

“It's not sad, actually. I don't even care. ”

“Yes. In the end, the death of another person may not be more than the 100 won I lost. ”

I wrote one word on the writings of Kanghwan.

“Empathy. The purpose of the play we're going to do now is to empathize audiences with each other's sadness. Of course, if the audience comes out and tells you a good story about themselves, you'll fit right in. I'll make it more exciting. But when I was preparing for this communication in the first place, it was their own sadness. ”

“You're heading towards the end of Miner again. Well, he's only interested in humankind and honesty. ”

Hannah sighed deeply and said.

The floor understood Hannah's sigh. When there is no money in the water, Ganghwan plays a variety of plays. the story of a lottery man, the story of a father who suddenly had a child, the story of a hundred people who fell in love, etc.

This is what he really wanted to do after filling his wallet with comics that work well on the university road. "The floor still creeps me out when I think of the dramatic" Redemption "video that was shown by Kanghwan. The dramatic content is also bitter, but the last scene shows the end of awkwardness. I showed the end of the homeless who threw themselves onto the Han River without any sign of knighthood, so vividly and unfiltered.

The reason the play is strange is that the death of the protagonist is neither sad nor regrettable, but passes away. That void, which was not even tragic, made me think of so many things.

“That's why the stage is set up in the clinic. ”

The floor covered the script and said: Kanghwan smiles and starts clearing the whiteboard.

“If it works well, I'm sure the issue mall will work. Will this work? ”

Days told me that he had left extreme good and bad behind to ask if it had succeeded. The floor also cared about that. After all, it is a project that has been implemented for the purpose of informing the public about the play, such as' amateur actress classrooms’. It is said to be a happy story, but I wonder if the audience will be more engaged in a situation where it is being planned to reveal sad stories openly.

In front of a complete stranger, he gets on stage and tells his own true story? A story that can all be laughed at easily can come out, but a painful story that requires you to ask your lips just by pulling it out will not be easy.

And having to act with such an audience is not greener.

“Never mind the consequences. It's important to do it. ”

At that moment, Hannah mutters.

“Guys, we're running low on budget. The people in the association don't care much anyway. What you two wanted was for Kanghwan to be JA, otherwise he would have just made some sort of pamphlet all by himself. That's where the far-fetched play was born. No one gives a shit, so fuck me, this is it. ”

Hannah's words spill a few days.

Usually the word associated with a man's penis comes out of a woman's mouth, but Hannah is the exception. I feel nothing because I'm used to it.

“Hannah, be gentle with your words. And it works. Nowadays, people have no place to talk openly. But you're making a stage. I'm encouraging you to tell me. I'm just going to bring up the stories in people. Anyway, let's wrap up the rough stuff here and get into the details. ”

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Joon-min drank tea and read the celebrity side of the portal site. The top one was the dismantling of the popular girl Idol the Blue. I said I wouldn't do it, so I'm going to disassemble it.

“Yellowstar must be a pain in the ass. I hope Ahn Ju-hyun shows up because the agency is stuttering. ”

One of the actors I wanted to recruit for a long time was Ahn Ju-hyun. I was so sick to my stomach watching Yellowstar take me away after a while.

Next to it is an article about the owner of a company that disappeared with a production fee of 10 billion won. I can sigh just by looking at the article title. Loss is not just bad. The film caught me off guard because of the spot I had to hit, hit and climb. I picked another movie to get rid of, and there's trouble. The whereabouts of the fraudulent boss were still unclear, and it was also said that there was no one in the country.

Joon kicks his tongue and scrolls down. At that moment, I saw a knight at the bottom who caught my eye. It was a short story from an anonymous Internet newspaper. Click to go inside and you'll see a familiar face floating and a short article written underneath.

- Drama viewership. The power of a young actor to catch the viewer's eye?

There was also a face among the actors in other dramas. Journalists wrote that the scene of the interrogation on the floor raised the viewership rate.

“I'll pay for my own meals, is that it? ”

Joon-min drank a cup of tea, smiling lightly.