Twins Search for a Father and a Brother in Scorched!?

Five plays and five celebrated directors shape Quad, Questions of Theatre: Evolving Texts, a project centered on how plays can speak anew across eras. Its range reaches from Shakespeare to modern drama and contemporary Korean theatre, with directors Ara Kim, Kwang-Bo Kim, Woo-Ok Kim, Seong-Yeol Lee and Tae-Sook Han at the helm. Scorched is one of the five, so keep an eye on how this production brings its text into the present 🎭

The project puts the text itself in the spotlight, using these works to explore theatre now and what it might become. For Scorched, that means a story rooted in war and massacre, with a family’s search drawing attention to cycles of hatred and the force of love chosen through will. If you only have time for one thing, make it the twins’ journey: it’s the thread that leads into the play’s questions of violence, responsibility and human dignity.

Jeanne and Simon are twins who’ve spent five years in silence. After their mother Nawal dies, her will leaves them with an astonishing task: find their father, whom they believed dead, and a brother they never knew about, then deliver letters to them. She also asks to be buried without a coffin or headstone. That’s a lot to take in, isn’t it? 😮

The twins set out to follow the traces Nawal left behind, and the more they learn about her past, the closer they come to a shocking truth about her silence. The production reworks the Greek tragedy of Oedipus as a modern myth, expanding a personal family tragedy into a confrontation with human dignity. Scorched is a paid performance, so check the ticket details before you go; Daehakro Theater Quad is a performing arts theatre, with other theatres nearby if you’re planning an outing in the area 🧭