Medea/Exodus: Everything I Loved Crushed Me Into the Sun

Two performers present a peculiar concert manifesto; a dialogue between two women fighting to keep a man by “screaming” against the hypocrisy of the male gender while opposing the values of marriage, motherhood, and the very concept of what it means to be a woman. This concert manifesto aims to explore the deeper motives behind a murder and the upheaval of an entire society surrounding gender issues, viewed through the lens of ancient myth.

The two Medeas converse without looking at each other, raising questions that concern women in art from ancient to contemporary times: What leads a Medea to kill her children?  How can a serious crime be justified? What led to committing it in the first place? How can that be conveyed on stage through the tragic element of ancient drama, and how does ancient drama ultimately create a universal language to express contemporary issues? The performance unites the voices of many different versions of Medea written worldwide, from Euripides’ time to the present day, with music playing a primordial role in the composition of the vocal score.