MEDEA

In the organizer's words:

MEDEA

after Euripides

Medea is probably the most incomprehensible figure in literary history. Like no other female figure, she leaves an unprecedented trail of blood in her wake: betrayal of her father, murder of her brother, murder of the king of Iolkos - and that's not all. Seeking protection, she flees with her family to the royal court of Corinth. Superior to those around her due to her intellectuality, rhetorical power and combative determination, she is rejected and humiliated as a foreigner. In the end, Medea goes to extremes to harm her opponents and take revenge: She kills her own children and destroys the ruling house of Corinth. It is due to the complexity and ambivalence of the character of Medea that her actions and motives defy simple explanations. She is not a victim or a perpetrator, but perhaps both at the same time. Euripides, the youngest and most modern of the three great tragedian poets of Greek antiquity, liberated his main character from mythological distance and revealed the disturbingly human in Medea.

Based on Euripides, Karin Henkel, one of the most renowned directors in the German-speaking world and already invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen seven times, examines the monstrosity of deliberate self-destruction and destruction of others. "Medea" is Karin Henkel's first directorial work at the Residenztheater.

Artistic Director

Production Karin Henkel
Stage Thilo Reuther
Costumes Teresa Vergho
Music Arvild J. Baud
Speech choir director Alexander Weise
Lighting Markus Schadel
Dramaturgy Bendix Fesefeldt

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