Bujayuch'in: There Should Be Intimacy between Father and Son

Abstract

Near the end of the so-called shinktk period (1910-1960),l during which Korean theatre had been dominated by European-style realistic theatre, Oh Tae-Suk emerged as an exponent of nonrealistic theatre. In 1969, he won first prize at the Annual Contest for Literary Arts for his drama Wedding Dress. During the late 1960s and the early 1970s, he was associated with theatre groups such as the Silhom Kikdan (Experimental Theatre Group) and the Drama Center, which played integral roles in introducing the recent dramas of Europe and the United States to Korea. In 1968 and 1969, the Experimental Theatre Group produced most of his early plays, which were written in the nonrealistic European style. Although Oh was not the first advocate of antirealism, he soon established himself as an iconic figure in nonrealistic Korean theatre. Oh Tae-Suk also directed a series of Western