Tag Archives: 창극

Performative Re-mediations of Tradition: Korean Singing-Storytelling Pansori in the Movie Seopyeonje and its Stage Adaptations (#CLAM2021 Online Conference Paper)

Posted on 30 June 2021 by Jan Creutzenberg

This has been some time in the making: In the following you find some resources – basic infos, videos, literature, and other links – for my presentation on Seopyeonje, a movie about pansori, and related stage adaptations, to be presented … Continue reading →

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Beyond Tradition, Beyond Korea: New Changgeuk Repertories at the National Theater

Posted on 31 August 2020 by Jan Creutzenberg

I haven’t written on changgeuk (창극) in a while, this fascinating genre-defying “traditionesque” genre that puts a whole bunch of pansori (판소리) singers on stage to see what happens. Having seen many changgeuk pieces over the last ten years, the … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Pansori and Changgeuk at the National Theater: The National Repertory Season 2017–18

Posted on 31 August 2017 by Jan Creutzenberg

The National Theater of Korea just presented its upcoming “National Repertory Season 2017–18” (국립극장 레퍼토리시즌). Every year, during the summer break, fans of gugak, pansori, and changgeuk are looking forward which new pieces will be shown, which earlier productions will … Continue reading →

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Things I learned at #AAS 2017, part3 (Saturday, 18 March + Sunday, 19 March)

Posted on 25 June 2017 by Jan Creutzenberg

This year’s conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in Toronto (March 16–19), the first one I ever attended, was enormous. Still overwhelmed by the experience, I publish some of my notes on the various panels I attended and … Continue reading →

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God Bless the Queen: My Paper on Changgeuk in the RASKB Transactions

Posted on 2 July 2014 by Jan Creutzenberg

Some month ago I had presented a paper on “Recent Experiments in Changgeuk” at the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch Colloquium. I expanded a bit on the topic and wrote an article for the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, … Continue reading →

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Recent Experiments in Ch’anggŭk: The National Repertory Season 2012-13

Posted on 5 March 2014 by Jan Creutzenberg

In a few days, on Saturday, March 15, I will present some thoughts on recent ch’anggŭk productions at the Royal Asiatic Society Colloquium in Korean Studies. It is the fourth meeting of the colloquium and since last winter this monthly event … Continue reading →

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New Season at the National Theater

Posted on 5 September 2012 by Jan Creutzenberg

I just received next season’s program of the National Theater of Korea (국립극장). Browsing the booklet called “국립레퍼토리시즌 2012-2013” (National Repertory Season, see it online here), I really got excited, seeing that there will be quite a number of interesting … Continue reading →

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Branding the Filial Daughter

Posted on 26 December 2010 by Jan Creutzenberg

It seems quite fitting to watch Cheong (청 / 淸) on parents day (어버이날, 8th of May). After all, Sim Cheong (심청), the heroine of this piece of musical theatre, is the personification of filial piety (효 / 孝)—a girl … Continue reading →

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