Chapter 42: Beginning
June arrives. The apartment lets its breath out. A new production is coming, and Woojin watches a classmate he cannot quite read.
June arrives. The apartment lets its breath out. A new production is coming, and Woojin watches a classmate he cannot quite read.
The last night of 겨울새벽. The call comes Thursday: the company is continuing. Barely.
The morning after the first performance. Woojin stays home while his father goes back for the second night — and learns something about what it means to carry what was given.
May 17, 2008. The first night of 겨울새벽. Woojin sits in seat C-8 and watches his father carry twelve years to the audience.
A school half-day. Woojin comes home early and hears something through the floor that he has always known without knowing it.
March 23, 2008. Woojin returns to the Mapo rehearsal room. The blocking problem is solved. Fifty-three days until the performance.
March 3, 2008. First day of elementary school. Lee Minyoung asks what everyone wants to be. Woojin says: acting.
March 1-2, 2008. The 맨발 극단 makes its decision: one more production. Winter Dawn, May. Dongshik turns down the drama offer.
February 28, 2008. Kindergarten graduation. Haeri says goodbye. Jiyul gives her drawing. And Dongshik has three days to make a decision.
February 14, 2008. Woojin turns seven. His father writes him a new text — this time, about a child watching his father work in the dark.