Medea*. Video trailer © Schauspielhaus Zürich
About This Production
Medea: In the ancient Euripedean myth, she is the princess whose husband Jason leaves her for another woman and who takes revenge by murdering their children. Director Leonie Böhm uses the tragedy as a springboard for a radical theatre experiment. Her Medea* is unconditionally a woman of today, refusing to embody an ancient tragic fate. Although she would prefer to carefully look at and explore this fate from the outside, she cannot escape it in the end. Maja Beckmann is moving as a defiant Medea-explorer and musician Johannes Rieder provides a melancholy and jarring soundtrack.
Medea*. Maja Beckmann. © Gina Folly
Medea*. Maja Beckmann. © Gina Folly
Medea*. Johannes Rieder, Maja Beckmann. © Gina Folly
Medea*. Maja Beckmann, Johannes Rieder. © Gina Folly
Medea*. Johannes Rieder. © Gina Folly
Medea*. Maja Beckmann. © Gina Folly
Artistic Team
With
Schauspielhaus Zürich
Medea by Euripides. Translations by Herbert Meier were used. Transfer of the performing rights occurs in agreement with the publishing house Felix Bloch Erben, Berlin. Representative for Switzerland: Musikverlag und Bühnenbetrieb Zürich AG, Zürich Peter Krumme. Perfoming rights: Verlag der Autoren, Frankfurt am Main.
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