A Korean Production

Friday after work, I was hanging out at E-World waiting to go to Karaoke or "The Singing Room."  (It's not really karaoke, it's a small room they put you in where they make you sing in front of your friends in an enclosed space, it's the definition of awkward).

Anyway, I was waiting and one of the older students came up to me and started talking to me.  She was a really good speaker and she was asking me questions and our conversation lead to her inviting me to see a theatre production the next day.

So of course I went, despite the fact that I knew I wouldn't understand what was going on.  I figured I'd at least understand the actions and expressions and whatnot.

So we're watching the play and I'm trying to figure out whats happening, and basically I'm just becoming more and more confused.

The show ended and I summarized the play as such.  The play was about a group of poor children who were wandering around when they ran into an old blind man who told them about all his problems and woahs.  Then all of a sudden, evil clown muggers came out of nowhere in these huge clown fros and beat up the children and stole their possessions.   Then the old man, who apparently had at one point been a part of The Matrix, attacked the clown muggers in slow/fast Matrix fashion.  The end.

As strange as it was, I mean, I stage managed Mrs. McThing so nothing can surprise me.

But I was curious, so I asked the girl who brought me what the play was about.  She said it was about a group of kids who wanted to buy a horse from an old man but the old man lost the horse.

What?  What about the evil clown muggers?  Where did horses come into play?  I never saw a horse!  What does a group of seven children need with one horse?!?

Seriously, what did clowns have to do with anything??

In conclusion, I guess the dialogue was pretty essential, and in this case I wouldn't say the actions spoke louder than the words.  I'm baffled.