The longer you wear your mask, the harder it will be to take it off
What fate will Iphigenia choose when she is given a choice for the very first time? How can we stop the hands that control us, and who will tell the puppets about them so that puppet plays are no longer exclusively sad? The stories of Greek mythology were written thousands of years ago, yet their themes remain painfully relevant to this very day. The students from South Korea created a play that merges Greek myths with traditional Korean puppet theatre (Deolmi), in which puppets are manipulated by the napes of their necks. That’s where the play found its title – The Nape.