SEJONG CENTER

The work of Japan’s best dramatist, Mitani Koki. World War II in the 1940s, the tragic times everyone lost laughter. The exclusive playwright of the theater company “Academy of Laughter” applies for censorship to perform a work that can deliver laughs to audiences living in tough times. The cold-hearted censor who doesn’t think comedy is necessary in this era red-pencils all scenes with “laughs” in the script in an attempt to shut down the theater company “Academy of Laughter”. To get permission to perform the play, the playwright accepts the unreasonable demand of the censor, and sets to alter the script, but the script is developed into more and more intriguing. A seven-day big match between a censor who deletes laughs and a playwright who desperately defends laughs

Writer Mitani Koki | Director Pyo Sang-a