[Performance News] Pianist Yoon Yul’s Lyrical Recital, ‘Island Stories’ — Avignon Festival Guest Production, Opens ‘Class 3, Room 10’ from 1998!

These performances, featuring a guest production from the Avignon Festival, will promise outstanding artistry and a lasting impression.

A Classic Recital That Goes Beyond the Limits of Pianist ‘Yoon Yul’ (Sun Yool)

Pianist ‘Yoon Yul’ (Sun Yool) will hold a recital of overwhelming technical prowess at Mapo Art Center’s Art Hall Maek on June 4. Having proven his world-class stature by winning the 2024 U.S. ‘Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition’, he was selected this year as a resident musician of the Mapo Cultural Foundation. With the theme ‘Go Beyond the Limits’, this performance will feature a complete program of Poulenc’s ‘15 Piano Pieces (Inventions)’ and the full set of Liszt’s ‘Transcendental Études’, showcasing an even higher level of artistic excellence.

Play ‘Island Stories’ That Delivers a Heavy Message from the ‘Jeju 4·3 Incident’

The play ‘Island Stories’ by Creative Baki Theater Company, which offers an in-depth look at the tragedy of the ‘Jeju 4·3 Incident’, will be performed at Daehak-ro Theater Quad from the 15th to the 19th. Using the remains unearthed from the Jeju airport runway as a motif, it captures firsthand testimonies from survivors and their families in a vivid documentary-style format. Since its premiere in early 2022, it has been recognized for its overwhelming production quality, and this year it achieves the remarkable feat of being selected as the official guest production for France’s ‘Aviñon Festival’, the world’s most prestigious event.

A Well-Made Play That Evokes Nostalgia for 1998 — ‘Class 3, Room 10’

Laughing Cat Theater Company’s play ‘Class 3, Room 10’, which perfectly recreates the zeitgeist of a middle-school classroom in 1998, will kick off its premiere at the Mima Ji-mulbit Theater in Seoul from the 24th through the 3rd of next month. Based on real teachers’ records, it realistically portrays the coming-of-age story of both the homeroom teacher and the students. Under the direction of ‘Yoon Geum-jeong’ and with the outstanding writing by ‘Kim Soo-ah’, talented actors including ‘Song Yong-jin’ and ‘Han Kyu-jeong’ join the cast to deliver a deeply moving experience.