Actor Kwon Min-jung is meeting audiences after a three-year hiatus.
Kwon Min-jung began performing the play "The Cherry Orchard" on the 17th, appearing as landowner Ranevskaya, who seeks to protect the cherry orchard.
"The Cherry Orchard" is one of the four major plays by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, portraying characters confronting loss and memory amid a declining aristocratic family and a changing era.
Kwon Min-jung's return to theater comes about three years after "King Lear," which was performed at LG Arts Center Seoul in June 2023. Returning after a long hiatus, Kwon Min-jung is said to have focused on monologue scenes and devoted effort to delicate emotional delivery to convincingly convey Ranevskaya's emotions.
Working with director Jeon Hoon for the third time, Kwon Min-jung completed the character's dimensionality by accepting the character's choices and emotions as they are rather than interpreting them definitively, and has been praised for portraying the character as if living in the present on stage.
Kwon Min-jung said, "I hope my own Ranevskaya in 2026 will remain meaningful to audiences. I prepared with all my heart, so please look forward to it and support us a lot."
Kwon Min-jung won Miss Korea Miss Hankook Ilbo in 1996 and debuted in film in 1997 with "Two Cops 3." She appeared in films such as "If the Sun Rises in the West," "Interview," and "Hypocrites," and in plays including "There Is No Love for Me," "Like Rain, Like Music," "The Glass," "Platonov," "Hamlet," "Kim Maria," and "King Lear."
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