Recovery – Korean Premiere

Our artistic collaboration with South Korea – a meeting of two creative worlds.

Artistic Director Stacey Christodoulou, at the invitation of Hye-ja Ju and Jakyung Seo, Co-Artistic Directors of the Global Women’s Performing Arts Festival (GWPAF) in Busan, South Korea, directed the Korean premiere of Recovery by Canadian playwright Greg MacArthur. 

This production was featured as part of the 5th Annual GWPAF, with six performances scheduled at the Adapter Theatre from June 10th to June 15th, 2025. The production was then transfered to the Haleunyoen Theatre at Busan Cinema Centre from June 28^th to June 29^th, 2025.

Recovery was brought to life with a talented local cast, set in a spa-like recovery center amidst the stark landscapes of Antarctica. The play offers a profound exploration of a highly medicalized and corporatized society, wielding fear as a mechanism of control. As the residents work through rehabilitation, boundaries between personal freedom and institutional authority blur, sparking reflection on memory, autonomy, and the limitations of individual agency.

The GWPAF serves as a platform to address pressing issues impacting contemporary women, such as discrimination, sexual violence, and inequality in daily life, while building bridges through the universal language of the arts.