Hwayeon Nam
Operational Play

In Operational Play, a total of 14 operational names are used as characters and 9 are used as stage settings and props. For example, Iceberg, the operation of US attack on Okinawa, Japan, appears as a character name while Red Dawn, the operation to capture Saddam Hussein appears as the stage setting in the play. It is very common that operational names are exceedingly literary and often do not correspond with the purposes, objectives and implications of the operations.

This project sprang from a close attention to such mechanism of these code names Operational Play is based on the text, which will operates the play as a sort of blueprint or manual. In 2009, a video documentation of the performance was exhibited. The performance was played with participants within in the context of the city. In this festival, Operational Play will realize the text in a different way in collaboration with composer Younggyu Jang.