MEDEA’S CHILDREN

In ‘Medea’s Children’, director Milo Rau tells a theatrical history in miniature. We witness the narration through the eyes of the children on stage who speak out about the absurd and blood-soaked tragedies of adult life in a setting that sort of pretends to be real. A real criminal court case is the starting point: the case of a mother who, in utter despair after a divorce, decides to kill her children and take her own life – but she survives. This modern tragedy is intertwined with the classic tragedy Medea, the most notorious example of relationship conflict and infanticide in Western literature.

Première 18 April 2024 in NTGENT, Gent

 
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