“MEDEA” director’s statement:
This adaptation of MEDEA is an abstract dialogue on the
battle between moral absolutes and the flexible nature of justification. MEDEA is the perfect piece for this
examination as the myth itself features two opposing characters playing by their own rules. And both believe their choices to be morally righteous and justified. Medea, a priestess
of Hectate and granddaughter of Helios, believes that the oath made to her is
broken and there is a price that must be
paid. Jason believes that any trespass of Medea is justified by the “greater
good” it accomplishes. The story that follows is one of divine righteousness
versus societal justification, of which both are intrinsically selfish and ultimately costly.
Inevitably resulting in the nominally Euripidean deus ex machina, this production is of the opinion that despicable
acts are justified many ways and all of them abhorrent; without a common or
universal set of principles, morality becomes flexible. This adaptation rides
on the vehicle of myth and uses aspects of hyper-theatre
(including masks, puppetry, and projection) to form a visual language that is magical,
visceral, and evocative.
