MEDEA | AT A GLANCE | THE PLAY | CAST AND CREDITS |
Kamani, 6.30 & 9.30 pm, Sun, 17 Jan |
A contemporary revisiting of Euripides’ Medea, the play revolves around discriminations and forbearance, power and revenge, and the meeting of two extremely different worlds; the one that is logical and rational, and the other one that grapples with the possible reality of mythology and ritual. Using the texts of Euripides and Pasolini as a spin conductor, the performance is a journey that dips us in the tragedy as it takes us closer to the universality and the power of the story. Everything has its beginning in a peripheral corner of the word, where an iron structure reigns monumental, holding in its three floors a group of people. They stir, they quarrel, they dream, until one of them returns from the outside, with an old fur. It is the pretext to tell a history to his companions, the one of Giasone, and of his departure to a foreign land, of the search for the golden fleece. But tragedy reveals its power and takes the upper hand, involving the group of men and women, and will immerse them in the story to its extreme result --- while the metallic structure as a magic box rotating on itself, produces images and situations, dragons, filters, ships crossing the seas --- and the naked iron will bring the suffering of Medea to light till her terrible decision. |
