In 2008 I was on a plane between Chicago and New York, and I told a gentleman on my row that I was going to be performing in Beijing during the Olympics and I'd like to have Beyond the Chariots translated into as many languages as possible. He said, I think our church could translate it to Korean. They did, and thanks to them there were North Koreans in the audience who were able to understand the play!

In 2010 I brought the play to Seoul, where Korean translations were developed for another of my plays, Big Fish/Little Worm.

Here are the places we performed on that trip:

FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY
Excerpts from Big Fish/Little Worm

US ARMY, 8TH COMMAND
Chapels:
Beyond the Chariots
Big Fish/Little Worm

WONCHON BAPTIST CHURCH
Beyond the Chariots

NAMSEOUL UNIVERSITY
Beyond the Chariots
Workshop

SEOUL FOREIGN SCHOOL
Assembly
Workshops

CENTRAL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
Chapel performances
Sociodrama for faculty
Evening performance for the community

GYEONGGI SUWON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Acting workshops
Chapel presentations

GYEONGGI ACADEMY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Chapel performance with Q/A

TAEJON CHRISTIAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Workshop
Assembly

INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF UIJONGBU
Workshop
Assembly Performance 

Visit www.RichDrama.com/Korea for highlights of the trip.

We're hoping to bring both plays back to Korea for the 2018 Olympics. 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/JJjgPbxBpLQ?rel=0
This video was prepared for my performance and workshop in Korea earlier this month. We now have Korean translation slides available for Big Fish Little Worm as well as Beyond the Chariots, which was translated for performances in China during the Beijing Olympics.

Our last morning in Korea was spent at a monthly Bible study for the Steering Committee for Far East Broadcasting Company, the radio station that interviewed me last week. Billy Kim (photo above), who oversees the FEBC, was the translator for Billy Graham during his 1973 crusade. Since then, Billy Kim has become a prominent evangelist and humanitarian in Korea.

After the Bible study I performed excerpts from Big Fish/Little Worm at their chapel. I was followed by a congressman. He shared that at the time Korea was divided there was only one Christian in congress. Now about 30% are Christian.

FEBC has started a new radio station in an area that has kept them out for 25 years. Whenever they put in a new station Christianity grows, so they're quite excited about this breakthrough.

My camera phone doesn't capture them, but we can see 10 red crosses of churches from one window in the Seoul Tower.

This morning I was interviewed on the Far East Broadcasting Company, and the interview will go out to the regions indicated on this map.

After the interview I got to perform Big Fish/Little Worm for Billy Kim and his staff at Far East Broadcasting Company. Dr. Kim is the grandfather of my former theatre student, Aaron Kim, and has worked with Billy Graham, Jimmy Carter, Rick Warren, and many others.

For more photos from FEBC and our current tour of Asia, visit the Asia 2010 photo albums at Facebook.com/RichDrama.

Students spend five hours studying here and only sleep that same amount.

A rooster crowed just as I snapped this shot of Suwon, Korea, at sunrise. We're off to perform Big Fish Little Worm and Beyond the Chariots for the US Army 8th Command, stationed in Seoul.

Earlier on this trip we performed Beyond the Chariots with Korean translations at Wonchon Baptist Church, here in Suwon.
Photo courtesy of Jeong-Rae Lee, who worked with Ellen Stewart and La MaMa in New York and to bring their production of  Trojan Women to a festival in Seoul.

These performances along with performances and workshops at local high schools and a university were set up by Rev. Joseph Kim, who is the headmaster of Central Christian Academy, and the father of Aaron Kim, who was a theatre student of mine.

For stories from our Korean travels, including our trip to the DMZ, visit RichDrama.com/Korea, and for more photos visit Facebook.com/RichDrama and the photo albums Asia 2010 Part 3 and Asia 2010 Part 4.

This is a traditional Korean farmers' dance. I can't imagine they work in the fields dressed in white!

Joyce and I are in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea. One half of this sphere is missing North Korea. The other half is missing South Korea. This sculpture is a sort of enacted prayer for the reunification of Korea.

You can see photos of the inside of each half of the sphere under the photo album Asia 2010 Part 3 at Facebook.com/RichDrama.