72-hour performance tests limits of theater in sleepless sound experiment

An unusual performance unfolded in Seoul last weekend — one that drew attention on social media for offering free overnight stays in the Hannam-dong area. “Pavilion 72,” presented by the National Theater Company of Korea, began at 6 p.m. on Thursday and ran continuously for 72 hours until Sunday evening at the Zoom Arts Center in Yongsan-gu. Some audience members stayed as long as 12 to 15 hours at a stretch. A performer in a construction safety vest opens by delivering lines from Wagner’s “The

By The Korea Herald