A few days ago, Ellie & I watched South Korean playwright Jaha Koo’s play/performance Haribo Kimchi at the Southbank Centre in London. We both were rather excited, when we were queuing with around 150 ethnic South Koreans (many, no doubt, with a British passport) and roughly the same number of audience members from British and other backgrounds. JAHA KOO’S HARIBO KIMCHI SOUNDED LIKE A MUST-SEE PERFORMANCE What we had heard about the play had sounded intriguing: a performance involving audience members, which combines video, robots, smells, sounds, music and traditional theatre, staged in a fully operational street kitchen where food is being prepared throughout the play by the main actor, who also happens to be the playwright, director, composer, video artist, robot designer and operator, and composer. We had been told that the street kitchen within the story is located in a working class district of Seoul, the time is […]