Transgender performer’s 50 years on nightclub stages come to life in play
Saek-ja, left, the star of “You Can’t Make a Life Out of Not Getting Slapped in the Face,” and director Khoo Ja-hye / Courtesy of Seoul Performing Arts Festival Korean society in the 1970s and 1980s was rife with violence and control masked as institutions and social order. At 16, the world saw her as…

