Silver Tongue
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Book Introduction
Accompanying the authors in their exploration of contemporaneity and the process of developing plays
A project by the National Theater Company!
2023 [Creative Empathy: Author] Park Ji-seon's "Silver Tongue"
A narrative of labor and care experienced by middle-aged and older women
“We’re just a nuisance.
If someone asks what the relationship is, then yes.
It's a relationship that causes trouble to each other.
“We just do that.”
Park Ji-seon's "Silver Tongue" was published as part of the 2023 [Creative Empathy: Writer] play selection of the National Theater Company, which explores the contemporaneity of writers and accompanies the entire process of play development.
This work speaks of the values of social solidarity and care in an age of harmlessness, where the ideal of a life without harming others or interfering in their lives is pursued.
This is the new work of writer Park Ji-seon, who received the 2022 Arko Literature Creation Fund, the 2021 Daejeon Creative Play Award Grand Prize, and the 2021 Tongyeong Theater Arts Festival Play Award for her outstanding theatrical imagination in works such as “Golden Gothic Girl” and “Silkworm.”
A project by the National Theater Company!
2023 [Creative Empathy: Author] Park Ji-seon's "Silver Tongue"
A narrative of labor and care experienced by middle-aged and older women
“We’re just a nuisance.
If someone asks what the relationship is, then yes.
It's a relationship that causes trouble to each other.
“We just do that.”
Park Ji-seon's "Silver Tongue" was published as part of the 2023 [Creative Empathy: Writer] play selection of the National Theater Company, which explores the contemporaneity of writers and accompanies the entire process of play development.
This work speaks of the values of social solidarity and care in an age of harmlessness, where the ideal of a life without harming others or interfering in their lives is pursued.
This is the new work of writer Park Ji-seon, who received the 2022 Arko Literature Creation Fund, the 2021 Daejeon Creative Play Award Grand Prize, and the 2021 Tongyeong Theater Arts Festival Play Award for her outstanding theatrical imagination in works such as “Golden Gothic Girl” and “Silkworm.”
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Into the book
Eunsu is set to become the granddaughter of the deceased's close friend today.
I came to pay my respects on behalf of my grandfather who is ill.
Eunsu goes to room 303.
Room 303 is the smallest funeral home.
In other funeral homes there are spouses, daughters, sons, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, grandchildren… … .
It is full of mourners from deep-rooted families.
--- p.11~12
A life that seemed like it was a hit
I can't stop hitting the jackpot
I'm leaving without a single penny
The red-hot sesame oil soothes my sorrow
That day too, Jeong-eun read the obituary notice board.
I was trying to determine the 'spiciness of sadness'
But I haven't decided yet.
This was the first time I had seen such a young deceased.
It was also the first time that there was only one surviving family member.
That's the only one left in the world, so now all that's left is
There was only one.
I came to pay my respects on behalf of my grandfather who is ill.
Eunsu goes to room 303.
Room 303 is the smallest funeral home.
In other funeral homes there are spouses, daughters, sons, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, grandchildren… … .
It is full of mourners from deep-rooted families.
--- p.11~12
A life that seemed like it was a hit
I can't stop hitting the jackpot
I'm leaving without a single penny
The red-hot sesame oil soothes my sorrow
That day too, Jeong-eun read the obituary notice board.
I was trying to determine the 'spiciness of sadness'
But I haven't decided yet.
This was the first time I had seen such a young deceased.
It was also the first time that there was only one surviving family member.
That's the only one left in the world, so now all that's left is
There was only one.
--- p.16~17
Publisher's Review
Eun-su, who lost her son in an accident, goes to pay her respects at a funeral of a stranger every time the season changes.
Every time this happens, Eun-su runs into Jeong-eun, the kind-hearted funeral assistant who was with her at her son's funeral.
One day, Jeong-eun starts telling a tall tale about having a shiny 'silver tongue', and the two gradually find a hill to lean on.
Various social issues of this era, such as war, gender discrimination, and racism, cause different feelings of distance depending on the individual's connection, but 'care' is something that everyone experiences and gives and receives from the moment they are born into this world, without exception.
Although the forms of 'care' experienced by each modern person are diverse, 'Silver Tongue' conveys deep empathy and resonance in that 'care' is an essential life cycle issue.
Furthermore, writer Park Ji-seon does not treat the issues of death, funerals, and care as dark and tragic subjects, but rather expresses the liveliness of the stage through cheerful rhyme songs and lines in a playful way.
A lie with sincerity, this is the essence of a 'story'.
In the movement of truth and lies, stories spark change.
Jeong-eun and Eun-su change.
(Omitted) The two people take care of each other so that it goes beyond a 'relationship where you look after each other when you're sick' to a 'relationship where you are a burden to each other.'
The two perform the care duties imposed on 'family' outside the territory of the traditional family, bound by blood or legal institutions.
In other words, Jeong-eun and Eun-su are practicing ‘doing family’ – family as a verb, not a noun, as suggested by family sociologist David Morgan.
- [Creative Empathy: Writer] Excerpt from "In Response to the Long-Awaited Order of 'Finding a Verb'" by Jeon Yeong-ji (Dramaturg), a member of the Steering Committee
Synopsis
Eunsu goes to the same funeral home to pay her respects every time the season changes.
Eun-soo encounters Jeong-eun, a friendly and helpful helper, every time she goes there.
Jeong-eun is the funeral assistant who came when Eun-su held her son's funeral.
Eun-su tries to avoid her, but Jeong-eun approaches her before she knows it.
Talk to me,
Offer rice,
He offers her a drink and sits down across from her.
Eun-soo begins to care more and more about Jeong-eun.
One day, Jeong-eun was like,
He begins to boast about having a shiny 'silver tongue'.
Author's Note
One person's life
Riding on one person's life
The night the two of us fell apart
that
Three, four
No, we
The night that fell apart
The Night of the Lost Hand
A Night of Missed Breath
I can't bring myself to leave
A wandering heart
I'm weak and falling
Willing to be weak and give in
The pain of 'doing' in that heart
we are
He's a fighter.
Summer 2024
Park Ji-seon
Every time this happens, Eun-su runs into Jeong-eun, the kind-hearted funeral assistant who was with her at her son's funeral.
One day, Jeong-eun starts telling a tall tale about having a shiny 'silver tongue', and the two gradually find a hill to lean on.
Various social issues of this era, such as war, gender discrimination, and racism, cause different feelings of distance depending on the individual's connection, but 'care' is something that everyone experiences and gives and receives from the moment they are born into this world, without exception.
Although the forms of 'care' experienced by each modern person are diverse, 'Silver Tongue' conveys deep empathy and resonance in that 'care' is an essential life cycle issue.
Furthermore, writer Park Ji-seon does not treat the issues of death, funerals, and care as dark and tragic subjects, but rather expresses the liveliness of the stage through cheerful rhyme songs and lines in a playful way.
A lie with sincerity, this is the essence of a 'story'.
In the movement of truth and lies, stories spark change.
Jeong-eun and Eun-su change.
(Omitted) The two people take care of each other so that it goes beyond a 'relationship where you look after each other when you're sick' to a 'relationship where you are a burden to each other.'
The two perform the care duties imposed on 'family' outside the territory of the traditional family, bound by blood or legal institutions.
In other words, Jeong-eun and Eun-su are practicing ‘doing family’ – family as a verb, not a noun, as suggested by family sociologist David Morgan.
- [Creative Empathy: Writer] Excerpt from "In Response to the Long-Awaited Order of 'Finding a Verb'" by Jeon Yeong-ji (Dramaturg), a member of the Steering Committee
Synopsis
Eunsu goes to the same funeral home to pay her respects every time the season changes.
Eun-soo encounters Jeong-eun, a friendly and helpful helper, every time she goes there.
Jeong-eun is the funeral assistant who came when Eun-su held her son's funeral.
Eun-su tries to avoid her, but Jeong-eun approaches her before she knows it.
Talk to me,
Offer rice,
He offers her a drink and sits down across from her.
Eun-soo begins to care more and more about Jeong-eun.
One day, Jeong-eun was like,
He begins to boast about having a shiny 'silver tongue'.
Author's Note
One person's life
Riding on one person's life
The night the two of us fell apart
that
Three, four
No, we
The night that fell apart
The Night of the Lost Hand
A Night of Missed Breath
I can't bring myself to leave
A wandering heart
I'm weak and falling
Willing to be weak and give in
The pain of 'doing' in that heart
we are
He's a fighter.
Summer 2024
Park Ji-seon
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: August 1, 2024
- Pages, weight, size: 124 pages | 186g | 125*200*11mm
- ISBN13: 9791193412435
- ISBN10: 1193412439
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