A bird that may starve on a Korean island and a friend who sets out to save it. Madrid premiere. 🎭🕊️

Italian director Daria Deflorian presents at Condeduque her stage reading of 'We Do Not Part', the novel by Nobel laureate Han Kang, in a piece that sits between theatre and dance.

🎭 'CHE DOLORE TERRIBILE È L'AMORE'

📅 Friday 18 and Saturday 19 December 2026

🕐 7.30 pm

📍 Condeduque (C. del Conde Duque, Madrid)

🎟️ Tickets €24

📖 What to expect

One day, Gyeonghe receives a message from her friend Inseon, who lives on Jeju Island in South Korea: she has been injured chopping wood, has been taken to the mainland and had to leave behind a bird that may starve.

In her novel, Han Kang explores one of the darkest episodes in South Korean history, the crushing of the 1948 Jeju uprising. Deflorian examines and questions this unsettling text.

🏛️ Condeduque

The former Conde Duque barracks in Malasaña is now Madrid City Council's centre for contemporary culture, with performing arts, music, ideas and visual arts.

ℹ️ Good to know: 90 minutes, for ages 16 and over.

✨ Memory, friendship and grief in one of the winter's international stage highlights.