Face-to-face

Reviewing the recording of past performances of 20 years plus, actors of Movement DangDang, the performance group discuss each other about how they can persist live performance in the new contact-free era. To elaborate their ambitious plan, the director of Movement DangDang invites actors to reinterpret any role of those which they had played once, then create new theatrical scenes even though with remote rehearsal and production process. Along with the production of film, ‘Face-to-face’, participants exchange their reflections about what the actor and acting mean for them, what theatre as an institution and an art form should be and how it should be transformed entering in the new normal phase amid the global pandemic. Combining the past scenes and new performances and defining the presence of actors in the transitional society, the film, Face-to-face stands by contemporaries who struggle with exploring their new social life.