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A SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. TITLE
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 1m, 6any gender (adult), 2any gender (youth)
Euripides , Carol Sorgenfrei
"Strikingly fresh ... theatrically arresting ... striking achievement." - Washington Post
How could a woman who killed her children be saved by the gods? The shocking ending of Euripides' play is the starting point for a meditation on modern woman and the role of the artist/shaman in a synthesis of classic Greek and Japanese Noh Theatre.
MEDEA - strong-willed woman, artist-shaman, sexual, an outsider revealed to be a goddessJASON - an ambitious "hero" who owes everything to the intervention of the gods and the help of Medea, revealed to be a demon in disguiseNURSE - timid, conventional and loyal, but eventually discovers her own strength as a womanCREUSA - a simpering, vain, unaware princessCHORUS MEMBERS - require exceptional speaking voicesCHILDREN - cloying and grasping, played by non-speaking dancers able to enact various other roles (ex: magic bulls)
The two children (and various other roles) are played by non-speaking dancers, not child actors. The chorus can range in size, from approximatel 3-8 voices. All actors except the chorus must be able to move creatively in dance-like patterns.
"...an arrestingly dramatic production.... a hypnotic mood of sacred ritual... gripping... " - StarTribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul
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