The Korean Cultural Centre UK Presents Korea Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 Showcase

Four of the top Korean shows to be presented at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe will be giving an exclusive sneak peek in London this week. Last year saw an impressive presence from Korea at the Fringe, and they'll be following up on last year's successes with more than ten new and returning shows. As part of the Korea/UK 2017-18 Season, an invited audience of industry and press will be able to view twenty-minute excerpts of four shows - two theatre, one music and one physical theatre - at Lilian Baylis Studio prior to their performances in Edinburgh.

About Lady White Fox with Nine Tales is a new theatre performance that recreates Shakespeare's Macbeth based on the mysterious and exotic White Fox legend of the Orient. Stunning imagery, live painting and physical movement with Korean traditional instruments and music combine in a spellbinding and provocative reinterpretation of this classic story, examining the essential duplicity of human nature and the agony of endless desire.

In a fusion of Korean and Argentinian music, Tango-Korean music band Gena Tango presents Sweet Tango, a new look at the music form through Korean eyes in a joyful musical experience that combines the urgent passion of Argentinian tango with traditional Korean instruments and music. The result is a fascinating fusion of Korean and Latin-American influences, creating an entirely new music genre that is both familiar and unfamiliar - bringing the variety of tone of the Korean music to the intoxicating rhythms of the tango.

In physical theatre, Just One Wise Life is an exploration of the concept of wellness and the logic of contemporary ethics shared by societies hoping to make the world a better place. In a story of lecturers, mothers, part-timers, artists and heroes, Just One Wise Life begins with refusing the accepted definition of ethics. It questions the logic of contemporary ethics shared by society and examines the ethics of new generations.

Finally, following a successful run last year, Theater Hooam will return with Black and White Tea Room - Counsellor. Jeong-Heong-So offers counselling in the tearoom, but takes one day off every year: the anniversary of his wife's death. A strange new client insists on being seen - but it soon becomes clear that the two have had a previous, far from positive encounter and an intense and bruising psychological battle ensues.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 Showcase is part of Korea/UK 2017-18 year of cultural exchange which launched in July 2017 and has so far seen the UK playing host to leading Korean artists from range of disciplines including music, theatre, dance and visual arts. Celebrating the friendship and co-operation between the two countries, Korea/UK 2017-18 is a companion programme to the British Council's UK/Korea 2017-18 which has seen British artists including Company Wayne McGregor and Balletboyz visit Korea.

Learn more at www.kccuk.org.uk.

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