THE VEGETARIAN

About the show

Yong-Hye makes a sudden decision to stop eating meat, a choice that sends shockwaves through her marriage and family relationships. What begins as a personal dietary choice becomes an act of defiance against societal pressures, control, and violence. Director Lilja Rupprecht adapts Han Kang's Nobel Prize–winning novel into a poetic and unsettling exploration of quiet resistance, its limits, and the fragility of human identity. The production examines how one person's refusal to conform can fracture the bonds meant to contain them, and how the boundaries of the self remain far more permeable than expected.