Daehak-ro Festival: CAMEL XIANGZI
The play Camel Xiangzi is based on Lao She’s Rickshaw Boy, a novel that is considered a classic of 20th-century Chinese literature.
The protagonist is an orphan peasant who leaves for Beijing to earn a living. Xiangzi is a young, hardworking, well-built rickshaw puller who dreams of owning his own rickshaw. Just when he has earned enough to buy one, it is confiscated by warlord soldiers.
The harsh realities of life taught Xiangzi that decency and hard work have little meaning in this pragmatic, dog-eat-dog world. He becomes a lazy, degenerate and unscrupulous good-for-nothing, no different from those he looked down on early in his life, spending his days gambling, cheating and whoring.
WHEN: open run
WHERE: Daehangno Arts Theater Main Hall (17, Daehak-ro 10-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul) 대학로예술극장 대극장 (서울 종로구 대학로10길 17)
HOW MUCH: 40000KRW / R seat, 30000KRW / S seat, 20000KRW / A seat
HOW LONG: 100 mins
BOOK TICKETS HERE
