Sleeping Dogs KOREA/UK
Migrant Overtures

BAC Studio 2
Fri 28 > Sun 30 Jan
Fri - Sat 8.30pm, Sun 6.30pm
£10.75 (£5.50 concs)
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In 1653, a Dutch East India Company ship was wrecked off the coast of Korea. Hendrik Hamel, one of the survivors, stayed for fourteen years in what was then a closed society, before finally escaping and returning ‘home’ to Holland. His report of this period became the first documentation of Korea in the West.
Today the idea of home is no longer fixed, but despite mass travel, immigration and cross-cultural exchange, governments still try to expand their empires into other cultures, and people still look for somewhere to belong, searching for our home and self. Taking Hamel's fascinating story as a starting point, London-based visual theatre company Sleeping Dogs uses techniques of animation and object theatre to explore the idea and identity of home in the 21st century. The founder/director of Sleeping Dogs is Seong Kyun Yoo.

‘Slow-motion magic...’
TIME OUT (All Fall Away)

Runs approx 60 mins without interval

Sleeping Dogs acknowledges assistance from The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation

www.objecttheatre.com

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