“I’m Innocent” — Each Time He Says It, He Locks Eyes With the Audience… Are You Really Without Guilt?
Creatrip Team
4 months ago
Seoul City Theatre Company’s production Trap (adapted/directed by Ha Su-min), based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s short story Die Panne, stages a darkly comic moral trial. Park Geon-hyung plays Traps, a successful sales manager who, stranded in a rural town, is drawn into a mock court run by retired judges, prosecutors and executioners. As the retired prosecutor Chorun (played by Kang Shin-gu) probes him, Traps’s confident claim of innocence unravels into unsettling doubt. The play uses a game-like trial to explore the tension between formal innocence and real responsibility, inviting the audience—seated on three sides and often meeting the actors’ eyes—to act as jurors and confront their own sense of guilt. Performances run through the 30th at Sejong Center S Theatre; tickets 40,000–50,000 won. (Sejong Center: major Seoul cultural venue)
