제 18 호 “Satan Alliance” Planned by Team '666' Majoring in Arts and Cultural Management at Sangmyung University
“Satan Alliance” Planned by Team '666' Majoring in Arts and Cultural Management at Sangmyung University
By Yun-Seo Jung, Reporter
The performance production team ‘666,’ composed of students majoring in arts and cultural management at Sangmyung University, produced a play called “Satan Alliance.” Before explaining the play of Satan Alliance, to briefly introduce the major of Arts and Cultural Management. The Arts and Cultural Management major at Sangmyung University aims to become a center for fostering future culture and arts CEOs and future culture and arts planners who will lead the Korean art world in the era of culture and arts, which is developing into a creative industry as a future growth engine. The major consists of theoretical classes on cultural arts management and practical classes of performances based on the theories. Team 666 was also created through a performance planning practice.
The Satan Alliance, a theater production by Team '666', was the winner of the Hankook Ilbo 30th annual spring literary contest. The play was performed at the Cheonan Art Center Small Theater for two days from May 25th to 26th. There are three main characters: Ursula, a nun, Salome, who is serving life imprisonment for murder, and John, a prison officer. The plot of Satan Alliance is as follows: Ursula, an old nun who has been in charge of prisoners' penitence for many years, meets Salome, a woman who has been in prison for more than a decade for burning her husband to death, and tries to make her repent. But in fact, Ursula also wanted to kill her husband, and she asked Salome to kill her husband, and they formed an alliance.
The Intention of the Satan Alliance
According to Team 666, the planning intentions of the Satan Alliance are as follows: “This work has a little religious color and a prison background, but behind it is the narrative of two women who are more humane and realistic than anyone else. Salome, who burned her husband to death, and Ursula, who wants to kill her former husband. According to John, a woman who kills her husband will never be saved or go to heaven as she desperately wants. There is nothing before them but the hell that awaits the sinners who killed their husbands. Nevertheless, they have chosen solidarity and share the path to hell. Generally speaking, heaven is good and hell is evil. However, can it be said that the place where wives, who are freed from the numerous things that have plagued them, dare to be called a hell filled with evil. The development of the drama, in which the absolute good and evil we take for granted are separated and reversed, makes the viewer think a lot.”
Team '666' meaning: The number '666' is said to be the number of the beast, or Satan. In a world where there is no absolute good or evil, Salome's allegiance to Satan leads Ursula to true freedom; team ‘666’ also means moving away from natural and absolute things and toward a new place.
If you are interested in watching performances after reading this article, it would be great to enjoy a wider and more diverse culture by paying attention to future performances that various students at Sangmyung University plan and perform.
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