Korea National University of Arts (K-Arts), founded in 1993 as South Korea’s national conservatory, is composed of six schools—Drama, Music, Film/TV & Multimedia, Dance, Visual Arts, and Korean Traditional Arts—designed to foster highly skilled artists through a production-oriented curriculum.
The School of Drama provides intensive training in directing, acting, playwriting, and stage design, with every semester focused on creating and presenting real performances.
Interdisciplinary collaboration is a core philosophy: theatre works often integrate elements from music, dance, media, visual art, and traditional performance. A clear example of this approach is the student production Deolmi, which blended Korean traditional mask performance with contemporary directing and movement techniques, later presented not only on campus but also at an external theatre with public audiences.
This structure shows how K-Arts functions as a complete creative ecosystem—where education, experimentation, production, and public presentation are inseparable—preparing students to participate confidently in national and international theatre environments.
Animal Farm
Our staging of Animal Farm represents the spiral of history: the repetition of authority disguised as renewal. Through shifting sound motifs and the physical repositioning of the commandments onstage, the performance makes visible how power ascends only to twist downward again.
The theme “Spiral” reflects the structure of our adaptation.
The animals believe they are moving upward—toward freedom and equality—yet they spiral back into a familiar form of oppression. Our Animal Farm visualizes a revolution that turns in circles, convincing its participants that progress is happening while power returns to the same hands with a different face.
This production highlights the evolution of language as a mechanism of power. Propaganda is delivered through amplified sound and collective rhythm. Allegiance and labor are embodied in Boxer’s physical exhaustion, while Squealer manipulates truth through staged announcements. By exposing the tools of authority without illusion, the performance emphasizes that tyranny grows through agreement, silence, and familiarity.
Length of production: 80 minutes
Venue: The Goose on a String Theatre
Release dates: 15.4. 11:15, 15.4. 15:30
Production language: Korean, English subtitles
