Her name is written in large letters on the black curtain which opens to the sound of the sea and the cries of seagulls. However, the complex figure of the mythological Medea, whose act of revenge culminates in infanticide, is hardly the focus of the following hour and a half. Rather, she becomes a projection screen to explore what it means to arrive as a foreigner in a new country. The piece addresses the conflict between preserving one's own, left-behind culture and integrating into a new one.
Halle's ballet director Michal Sedláček begins his piece with the arrival in Corinth. Like Euripides in the literary original, he omits the backstory of Medea, her husband Jason, and their two children—although it is not insignificant for the subsequent events. Medea helped Jason and the Argonauts ...
