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Orange Polar Bear - a cross-cultural performance piece for teenagers in Seoul and Birmingham (2020)

Peter Wynne-Willson

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Orange Polar Bear (2014-19) is an innovative bilingual theatre project created by Hanyong Theatre, the National Theatre Company of Korea and Birmingham Repertory Theatre. The main research aims were to develop a methodology for devising and presenting bilingual work in a way that maintains equality between collaborative partners, and, by focusing on the experience of teenagers in Seoul and Birmingham, to consider what young people can teach adults about bridging cross-cultural and language divisions. The research resulted in a novel methodology for devising bilingual theatre leading to a cross-cultural performance for young people in two languages, presented in the same form in South Korea and the UK. It was unique among Anglo-Korean collaborations for its focus on the experience of teenagers, and conscious balance of languages, cultures and practices. Additionally, the research demonstrates the value of adopting a child-led approach to creating cross-cultural theatre and has created new insights into long-term approaches to developing fair and equal cross-cultural partnerships.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsKorean Theatre, Bilingual Drama, multi-lingual, Hanyong Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Applied Theatre, Korea, Theatre, Drama, collaborative processes, devising theatre, Birmingham, Seoul, Orange Polar Bear, Wynne-Willson, Bilingual, languages
date23/11/2020
published21/12/2020
last modified21/12/2020
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightPeter Wynne-Willson
licenseAll rights reserved
languageBritish English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1058856/1058857
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1058856
published inResearch Catalogue


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