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Chinese theater director Wang Chong's avant-garde work Ghost 2.0 debuted in Seoul.Photo provided to China Daily
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Although it's a play written in 1881, it retains meaning in today's society.
The original work discussed syphilis and the tragedy of the family, while in Wang's work, it is AIDS because syphilis is not an incurable disease now while AIDS is fatal.
"The original script is about a doomed marriage. Traditional marriage is also in a critical state in our era. Advanced technology offers various ways of cheating such as the Internet," Wang says.
The maid, the father and the son all use modern technology gadgets such as the iPhone and iPad. For example, the maid takes self-ies with a wineglass in hand when the mother is not at home.
The ending is a sequence of more than 20 edited images, including the kid's eyes, the father's smile, the doctor and a pill melting in a glass of water. At the same time, the mother is holding her dying son and screaming, and the son says he wants to end his suffering by morphine.
"It hints at the possibility of euthanasia. It's a play with advanced thoughts at that time, as it also tackles venereal disease and sarcasm towards the so-called model family," Wang says.
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