Honeymoon Korea - Cooking Nanta

This is one of the highlight of the tour which many gives positive feedback on it. We were brought to the theatre which is located in like one of their streets somewhere. The theatre is located at basement 3.

Entrance of their theatre...



*Extracted from their brochure

Introduction
Enormous audience had broken the theatre window?
Since the first performance on the 10th of October in 1997, this world famous NANTA has been drawing the largest number of audience in Korean stage history. The record-breaking show has broadened its stage from Seoul and Jeju Island in Korea to Broadway, NY, and to the world. NANTA hits the world with countless encores from 6,150,000 spectators of 19,200 shows in 2268 cities, 41 countries.

A frying pan, a water bottle, a pot, a chopping board, a knife... A musical instrument?
In NANTA, Knives and other kitchen utensils are transformed into musical instruments in the hands of the performers. The haunting and heart-stirring music based upon Korean Samulnori rhythms of Jainmor, Utadri, uneori, etc. combined with five distinctive characters! Comic explosion! NANTA still grows everyday to become better production, more entertaining performance with a high energy, easy-watch experience, infectious rhythm and non-verbal humor that cuts across both age and international barriers. It's NANTA.

Synopsis
An excellent cook, but the unmanly HEAD CHEF, a very sexy masculine SEXY GUY, and the powerful, sassy, the only woman cook, HOT SAUCE! The three attractive, characteristic chefs starts their day. Washing vegetable, carrying meat loafs, setting fire, cooks at NANTA kitchen is about to begin their busy job as always, then the ill-natured manager orders them to prepare 10 wedding ceremony menus, along with his little nephew, in just an hour. Suddenly the kitchen in thrown into turmoil and the cooks becomes wild as they chop, beat and stir in an attempt to meet the deadline. The wedding ceremony is at 6 o'clock and it is at hand! Will the NANTA cooks complete the preparation on time?

Merchanises for sales...



Due to the daily performance scheduled, they have about 9 teams (this is what I can count on the board) rotated for the shows. Our performance that night is by the white team!



Our pre-arranged tickets by the tour! VIP seats wor... Haha but its first few rows front centre seats which is good.




The stage setting...



As it was before dinner time, I was getting hungry so I asked Dear to buy the muffin and a hot caramel machiatto for me. Surprisely we were allowed to bring in thou they state no food and drinks allowed. Guess they allow food that purchase from their cafe to be brought in only.



The muffin is very nice! Soft and tasty...



Us before the show started...



Our cast for the day...



The whole performance which last about 1.5 hours was full of laughter! Thou the performance does not have any stage talking but by their actions, expression, background music, sounds that they created by the different props brought everything to life! They even have audience interaction which they invite participants on stage for some part of the performance. It was indeed an enjoyable performance for me and I strongly recommend this comedy show to everyone!

Cooking Nanta has many other theatres that you can go for the performance.
1) Myeongdong Nanta Theatre
2) Gangbuk Jeongdong Nanta Theatre
3) Hongdae Nanta Theatre

For more other info, you can go to www.nanta.co.kr