Word: medea
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...half millennia since it was first enacted, the story of Medea still has the power to captivate. No wonder the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club has decided to present the drama in a stunning production this weekend at the Loeb Experimental Theater...
Directed and scripted by Rebecca R. Kastleman ’05 and produced by Katherine J. Thompson ’05, themedea is an original adaptation of Heiner Müller’s 1989 prose poem “Medea Material,” which in turn is an avant-garde recreation of Euripides’ ancient tale...
...production attempts the total modernization of the ancient text. It is immediately and unmistakably avant-garde, utilizing nearly every tool available to theater to explore the legend of Medea. The play is intricately choreographed, in many places more akin to modern ballet than to anything Euripides could have imagined...
...discrete depictions of moments rather than a linear narrative is further emphasized by perhaps the play’s most unconventional feature: the use of two actors each to play both Jason (Todd C. Bartels ’06 and Josh Clay Phillips ’07) and Medea (Susan E. McGregor ’05 and Adele Jerista), essentially the only characters. This decision inverts the practice of having one actor take on multiple roles, forcing the audience to see the action as if reflected in a broken mirror...
...bifurcation of the main characters is complemented by the condensation of the chorus. Here Medea, given the freedom to speak with herself, can finally act as just another woman of Corinth, escaping from the separation she faced in the original...