So, I went to Eunpyong Cultural Center by subway righ after having my Friday prayer at Itaewon Masjid. It was a good thing to know as well that I just needed to take the line 6 subway until Yeokchon station without having to transfer. It took about 30 minutes or so for me to be there. I met my classmate, Marta from Poland--who was looking her way to the Center. Luckily that she met me, otherwise....anyhow...back to the Pansori...
After getting there, still...I had no idea..not even the slightest one of what I would encounter in the theater. So, I checked into the registration booth where I needed to sign up for my name; confirming that I was on invitation to see the show.
As I was walking into the corridor leading into the theater, I grabbed one booklet explaining of what the show was all about. Good decision!
I could see that the show was about the supposedly new genre of Pansori being brought back into the contemporary collaboration with other genres of music amplified by the witty infusion of lighting effects, movies, theatrical props, and modern musical instruments ranging from organ, bass, drum, guitar, flute....to complement the indispensibly existing Korean traditional instruments. After all that was Pansori all about.
The show begun exactly at 3 pm.
The nerve-cracking audience with little prior experince of what to see and how to behave during the show only made it even more interesting. So, the show started with a kind of welcoming and introductory show of what to do and what to say--SHOUT--during the show.
oh man...I remember the one term when all of us got to say 'olsigu', jotha, jaranta, amyeon, geureoji, eodi, eueoit!!!......(얼시구, 좋다, 잘한다, 아면, 그렇지, 어디, 으어싯!!!!).
Since most of us did not /have not yet got accustomed to those terms. They are mostly used to have a kind of interactive reprisal or answers or just expression of what one feels whenever they see the Pansori; notably when the performers say something of one's interest.
