After seeing a play,"a Dwarf who loved the Snow White"

“A Dwarf who loved Snow White” is the first play that I have ever seen. The play is running at You Theater in Chungdam-dong, Seoul. It has garnered tremendous popularity since its first performance in May of 2001. It has been playing more than 800 times and getting more than 300,000 attendances. This performance is based on the well-known fairytale “Snow White”. The play delivers the previously untold love story of “Bandal”, one of the seven dwarfs, who loved the princess but could not express his feelings. In the play, only seven actors and actresses perform all rolls: seven dwarfs, princess, prince, villages, stepmother, etc. Writer Seo Kwnaghyun wrote the original play in 2001, director Park Sunggul is staging, and Kwan,Hukmi acts as “Bandal” who is the hero.
Although it was successfully finished at the last performance in June of 2004. You Theater decided to restage the play after repeatedly receiving calls from people who wanted to see the performance. You Theater updated the play to use more sophisticated stage props and costumes for the upcoming performance schedule. Then the performance has been restaged since Jul 8, 2005.
The play depicts seven dwarfs and Snow White, who comes to “Misty Forest” to escape from her wicked stepmother. The youngest dwarf, Bandal, devotedly helps Snow White but eventually couldn’t say his love. The noble gestures of Bandal, who could not express his true feelings for Snow White, the expressive choreography, and emotional melodies all create a memorable performance.
I don’t know what is a good acting because that I have seen only one play and I don’t have rich knowledge. However, the actors and actresses acting impressed me and showed me invisible things. The play was composed under a picture frame that the seven dwarfs played their ancestor’s famous story, related to the “Snow White”. Sometimes “Ggokisul”, who is one of dwarfs, acted the prince, “Noulsup”, who is another dwarf, performed the Snow White. The other dwarfs also changed their roll from dwarf to villages in the middle of play. So I could become aware of the play’s possibility to perform variously. It was enough interesting that I should imagine that there were invisible dwarfs who were acting other rolls. “Bandal” was dumb. He could not say anything but dance to show his emotion and feeling. The acting without speech made me concentrated to his face and motion and the choreography was very smooth and expressive. Furthermore, the other player also showed me great performance.
In other hand, I was impressed by using props and some effective scenes. I have never imagined how could express an invisible wind and a raining lake. They shook a ribbon for the wind and they waved a blue large fabric for the raining lake. The director managed the play well organized: the seven players continuously moved on the stage and made the audiences absorbed in the play. The last scene was awesome. Suddenly “Bandal” appeared behind of a screen that had been back of the stage during the play. Because he was spotlighted by several lights behind of the screen, we could see him among a lots of misty flower through the thin screen. It had a great effect to amaze us. The director might intend to surprise the audiences and he succeeded.
I already knew the story, “Snow White”, and the actors and actresses loudly spoke. In addition to it, the whole script didn’t use complex and difficult expressions, so I could easily understood the dialogs. For a moment, I thought that the production was surely made for children. Occasionally, they smoothly sang with a sweet music. It could deliver me unspoken thoughts of “Bandal” and it explained me about some situations.
I want to recommend my friend to go to see this production with his or her honey. The play would give a warm impression and help to feel love stronger. And I also wish to recommend family include children to go. Because it is easy to understand and enjoy the play and it would teach the children something about devoted love. Nowadays people lost their pure and devoted love in their heartlessness modern life. If some body see Bandal’s love, they could find what is a true love and they could know the dumb love is stronger than others.