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Tolerance: Stations

[Tolerance: Stations] tells the stories of travelers.

Seven travelers, each with different languages and senses, bring the unfamiliar landscapes and expressions they pass by to the theater through their encounters.

We've all been on a train before. Grasslands appeared and disappeared outside the window, with many houses and even more graves. The desolate plains turned into snow-covered mountain ranges, and dirty alleys transformed into dazzling rivers. After the stillness of the journey ends and we disembark from the train, we are often filled with a desire to show someone we met at a station the scenery we were briefly entangled in. As we leave the theater, we recall the efforts to convey the unfamiliar scenes of the play we just saw to someone, in any way we could, through our bodies and language.

At that moment, the theater is born.

The theater of Tolerance: Stations continues to be born. There, people struggle to see, hear, and speak of the scenery in their ways. They share their own landscapes and transplant each other’s landscapes.

In this process, our bodies open their own theaters, and stories, translated into unique languages after passing through multiple speakers across numerous times and spaces, meet again at our stations, in this theater, here and now.

Lunder & Thightning

The theater collective Lunder & Thightning is interested in the theatrical phenomena that occur before and after the story. Director Hye-rin Jeong collaborates with creators who pay attention to different things, exploring how the bodies surrounding the story relate to the world through performances. Life is a state where what I see and what you hear, what happens there and what is felt here, cannot be distinguished. Perhaps theater is the struggle to reignite the fading sense of connection within life. Faced with situations where everything happens simultaneously, people in the theater might suddenly start thinking about living together, about love, and might, for a moment, believe in the possibility of all impossible things.

Tolerance

Started in 2021, Lunder & Thightning's series <Tolerance> aims to discover a new place for theater by examining and emphasizing the elements that make up a performance. Tolerance: Fictions (Sinchon Theater) focuses on the fiction that intervenes between the stories heard and those to be told, the actors’ bodies, and the movements struggling for the story. Tolerance: OST (Sinchon Theater) explores the stories that occur between listening and being heard, seeing and being seen.

Creative Team