Cookin'
 

Show Dates
Opening: July 1st, 2003
Open run

Performance Schedule:
Mon-Sat @4pm, 8pm
Sundays & Holidays @3pm, 6pm

Tickets:
Pricing: Vip 50,000 / S 40,000 / A 30,000 won

Booking Tickets:
Tel: 02-739-8288

Theater Information:
Nanta Theater

How to find us:

Subway line 5 to SuhDeaMoon Station
1) Take Exit #5and walk 250 meters toward Kyung Hyang Daily Newspaper B/D
2) At the Newspaper B/D, turn right and walk about 50 meters toward
Chong Dong Theater.
3) At Yewon High School, turn left and walk up 30 meters.

Subway line 1 or 2 to City Hall Station
1) Take exit #1 or exit #12 and walk about 350meters along the wall Duksu Palace
toward the Kyung Hyang Daily Newspapter Building.
2) At Yewon High School, turn right and walk up 30 meters.

What's Cookin':
We give a title as "COOKIN" to approach the show to the audience easily and quick to understand it abroad which is called "NANTA" in Korea.
'NANTA' means figuratively reckless punching as in a slugfest at a boxing match. Our 'NANTA' is a non-verbal performance of reckless rhythms that dramatize customary Korean percussion in a strikingly comedic stage show. Integrating uniquely Korean traditional tempos with a western performance style, NANTA storms on stage into a huge kitchen where four capricious cooks are preparing a wedding banquet. While COOKIN', they turn all kinds of kitchen items - pots, pans, dishes, knives, chopping board, water bottles, even brooms and each other- into percussion instruments. Rhythm rules and audiences are swept along in the primitive sound explosion and actions on stage. Though the performance is built primarily on captivating rhythms and has very few spoken words, audiences of all ages and nationalities can easily enjoy the plot and dramas.

(Non-Verbal Performance is a genre without words but consists of only rhythm and beat)

Synopsis:
Three crazy chefs and a mischievous assistant are assigned to cook a major wedding banquet within a strict time limit. There is a breathless sense of crisis and comedy as the magisterial maitre D' tries to keep the preparations on schedule while the cooks continuously loose focus, breaking into periods of percussive pandemonium. The typical instruments used in Samulnori have been replaced with diverse drums improvised from utensils commonly found in kitchens. Going back and forth from cooking to pounding out their rhythmic cadences, from cheerful banter to playful animosity, the kitchen crew creates visual humor and aural fun that irresistibly entice the audience to participate. As they complete the best dishes of the day, the performance culminates in a feast that is shared with the audience to both highlight and celebrate the communal bond found in traditional Samulnori performance.

(C) PMC