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title={Disability Theatre from the Perspective of ‘Performing Care’ : Focusing on When I Begin to Speak and Three 4 one},
journal={The Journal of Korean drama and theatre},
issn={1225-7729},
year={2025},
number={85},
pages={133-165}
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TI - Disability Theatre from the Perspective of ‘Performing Care’ : Focusing on When I Begin to Speak and Three 4 one
JO - The Journal of Korean drama and theatre
PY - 2025
VL - null
IS - 85
PB - The Learned Society Of Korean Drama And Theatre
SP - 133
EP - 165
SN - 1225-7729
AB - This research examines examines disability theatre from the perspective of ‘performing care.’ Focusing on 0set Project’s plays When I Begin to Speak(2020) and Three 4 one(2023), which are based on the life of disabled artist Hong Seonghoon, this study explores how disability theatre does not merely represent care but invents and proposes its own forms, thereby questioning the ethical and political possibilities of care as performance. Here, care is extended beyond the paradigm of protection and support to include mutual dependence, affective equality, and issues of distributive justice.
When I Begin to Speak depicts a relational self that constructs its own narrative by reaching out to family members, moving beyond the interconnected body of the “disabled family.” Three 4 one is about work, care, and interdependence. It is about how the work of three people creates one life, and how one life gives work to three people. The theatre illustrates how Hong’s life as an independent member of the local community is fundamentally sustained through care and interdependence with three personal assistants, prompting a reconsideration of independence not through meritocracy but through the redistribution of care resources. Furthermore, 0set Project positions the audience not as passive spectators but as performative agents entangled in the anxieties, tensions, and ethics of care, thus probing its aesthetic dimensions.
Through this analysis, the paper conceives disability theatre as a site that experiments with new ethics and aesthetics of care, ultimately proposing care as a sensory and political practice that reconfigures social relations and redistributes inequalities, thereby critically transforming prevailing discourses on disability and care.
KW - Disability Theatre;Performing Care;Interdependence;Relational Self;Affective Equality;Making Kin
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. (2025). Disability Theatre from the Perspective of ‘Performing Care’ : Focusing on When I Begin to Speak and Three 4 one. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, 85, 133-165.
. 2025, "Disability Theatre from the Perspective of ‘Performing Care’ : Focusing on When I Begin to Speak and Three 4 one", The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, no.85, pp.133-165.
"Disability Theatre from the Perspective of ‘Performing Care’ : Focusing on When I Begin to Speak and Three 4 one" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre 85 pp.133-165 (2025) : 133.
. Disability Theatre from the Perspective of ‘Performing Care’ : Focusing on When I Begin to Speak and Three 4 one. 2025; 85 : 133-165.
. "Disability Theatre from the Perspective of ‘Performing Care’ : Focusing on When I Begin to Speak and Three 4 one" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre no.85(2025) : 133-165.
. Disability Theatre from the Perspective of ‘Performing Care’ : Focusing on When I Begin to Speak and Three 4 one. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, 85, 133-165.
. Disability Theatre from the Perspective of ‘Performing Care’ : Focusing on When I Begin to Speak and Three 4 one. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre. 2025; 85 133-165.
. Disability Theatre from the Perspective of ‘Performing Care’ : Focusing on When I Begin to Speak and Three 4 one. 2025; 85 : 133-165.
. "Disability Theatre from the Perspective of ‘Performing Care’ : Focusing on When I Begin to Speak and Three 4 one" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre no.85(2025) : 133-165.
