Immersive 'Bunker Trilogy' Recasts World War I Through Classic Tragedies
Creatrip Team
a month ago
An immersive Korean theater production, 'Bunker Trilogy,' places audiences inside narrow, wooden trenches to experience the horrors of World War I up close. The three 75-minute plays reinterpret classic stories—Morgana (from the Arthurian legend), Macbeth (Shakespeare), and Agamemnon (Greek tragedy)—to explore how war destroys truth and human dignity. Audiences hear bombs, feel vibrations, and encounter close-up anguished breaths and screams, while the plays weave reality and hallucination: soldiers call each other by Arthurian knight names, a leader who kills an arrogant general becomes a commander only to be betrayed, and a sniper’s wartime and domestic tragedies are revealed. The work premiered at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe, won top theater honors in Adelaide, and has been staged in Korea to sold-out houses. Performances run at Hongik University Daehangno Art Center through March 2; tickets 55,000 KRW per play.
