February 14, 2010. 설날 and ninth birthday — the same day. Mother gives a book on Korean theater history. Extended family: “what do you want to be?” — “an actor. Differently from appa. Mine.” Father on the bus home: “I also learned from Woojin.”
December 2009. The days after the first stage. Siwoo gives Woojin a sky-view stage plan of the 발표회. Kim Jiyoung: both are real, keep doing it. 겨울방학 begins. The outside watching and inside feeling improve each other. Start from there.
November 14, 2009. The 발표회. The school stage. Woojin performs the stranger for the first time — four lines, two hundred people, three seconds of silence. The loop from the inside. The sixth stage plan, drawn from within.
November 2009. Stage rehearsals at the school auditorium. The stranger finds the stage scale. Dress rehearsal: it was there. The night before the performance — father says a little nervous should be there. Tomorrow.
October 2009. Woojin prepares the stranger in private — walking the school route as the character, finding the sadness of passing through. Under the half-bare ginkgo, both the knowing and the seeing-fresh arrive at once. He finds the character.
October 2009. Kim Jiyoung distributes the script: 가을이 오는 길. Woojin is cast as the stranger — four lines, a watcher from outside. Park Jiyeon is the tree. Father: the stranger is not you. Find where the sadness comes from.
September 2009. 2학기 begins. The ginkgos start their autumn turn. Kim Jiyoung announces a class play in November — on the school stage. Woojin has six weeks.
August 2009. Woojin visits the Mapo rehearsal room. He diagnoses why the space is not speaking. During a break, he steps over the tape and stands inside — looking at the empty chairs. Both sides now.
July 2009. 여름방학. Siwoo builds the neighborhood in cardboard and discovers the actor’s view. A film scene reveals what stillness says. The watching from outside is also a form of making.
June 2009. Kim Jiyoung assigns a read-aloud project. Woojin memorizes a poem and discovers that observation does not turn off — it redirects. Watching the room instead of watching yourself. The loop, small, for thirty-eight seconds.