From Avignon to Seoul, Han Kang's words fill the silence

Against a white wall, two actors also dressed in white take their places onstage. The stage is almost unnervingly bare. A vast sheet of white fabric covers the floor and walls; the music stands and water bottles are white, too. Little suggests a world beyond the stage itself. Only midway through the performance does snow descend from above, adding yet another layer of white to the scene. In this near-empty space, Isabelle Huppert speaks in French and Lee Hye-young in Korean, their voices carryin