• Monday, Nov. 2, 2009 @ 7:00 PM
Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University
Tickets: $5 – Students free
Special Guest Speakers: Fred Carriere and Samuel Jamier, PhD
Yodok Stories chronicles the horror of North Korea’s more than 200,000 men, women and children locked up in concentration camps. Systematic torture, starvation and murder face the inmates on a daily basis. Few survive many years in the camps, but the population is kept stable by a steady influx of new persons considered to be 'class enemies'. A small group of former prisoners have managed to escape to a new life in prosperous South Korea and decided to produce an extraordinary and controversial musical about their experiences in the Yodok concentration camp. Braving death threats and many obstacles, the musical becomes a tour-de-force for this ensemble of refugees and their chilling story about the secret dark side of North Korea and of human nature.