The Apology

This world premiere from South Korean writer Kyo Choi deals with the reckoning over ‘comfort women’ – that is to say, women from occupied east Asian nations enslaved and forced into prostitution by Imperial Japan during the Second World War. In Korea, these horrendous actions were only fully publicly discussed and debated in the public sphere as of 1991 – the year ‘The Apology’ is set. The fictionalised drama follows the UN investigation into comfort women and their cover-up. Ria Parry directs.