 The famous mime Marcel Marceau is in Korea to perform at Seoul's Hanjeon Arts Pool Center. In an interview this week with the Chosun Ilbo, Marceau, his face lined with the innumerable expressions made over decades and decades of performing, started with a story about the magician David Copperfield.
Marceau recalled that Copperfield once told him that they were both magicians - Copperfield explained that he made things disappear, while Marceau made invisible things appear. Marceau said that a body can give poetic inspiration to a person, even without words.
At a lecture at Danguk University on Monday, Marceau put his microphone on the table after using it for less than five minutes. He said he dislikes the noise of machines and prefers silence.
His lecture started with "walking" and ended with "walking." He talked on the stage while walking on the stage for over an hour. Students watched agape as he seemed to climb hills and in and out of rooms. He leaned against an invisible object and stood with a comfortable posture. Hetold the students that there was nothing there, but they were able to see that nothing as an invisible something.
He said that he was greatly moved when he first saw a Charlie Chaplin movie. After seeing the movie, he started to perform in front of his friends, using only his body.
The performances that Marceau will be doing during this visit are all one-man acts. Asked how he could be performing on stage even in his 80s (he was born in 1923), he said that his spirit is always getting younger.
The shows at the art center are Friday and Saturday.
(Yoon Young-shin, while@chosun.com )
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