La Medea

OVERVIEW

La Medea re-imagines Euripides’ myth into a Latin-disco-pop-feminist variety show. At once an immersive musical and a simulcast film, La Medea is directed, performed, shot, and edited in real time creating a high-stakes vulnerability for cast, crew, and audiences alike. Performers and camera women play the characters, while studio audiences act as the Greek chorus and film extras.  The pervasive figure of the wild foreign woman who vengefully murders her own children is shattered in this genre-bending multidimensional dismantling of an ongoing toxic myth. Challenging the idea of a “dangerous,” “hysterical,” foreign woman, La Medea reveals an infinite woman that rejects the limited gaze imposed on her for centuries.

CAST

Writing, direction,choreography: Yara Travieso

Original music & libretto: Sam Crawford’

Additional Writing: Catherine Correa

Set design: Brookhart Jonquil

Costume design: Sue Julien

Lighting design: Tuce Yasak

Director of photography: Pamela Giroli

Assistant Director & Camera Operator: Liz Charky

Original illustrations & Mask Design: Harley Smith

Producer & Company Manager: Brighid Greene

Production Manager: Sara Lurie

Starring: Shayla Vie Jenkins or Rena Butler (double cast)

Featuring: Catherine Correa, Tiffany mallard, Erik Montes, Sol Koreaus or Nuria Marquez (double cast).

Music Performers: Jason and the Argonauts (5 piece band) Featuring vocals & Guitar Liz de Lise, Vocals & Guitar: Zeb Gould, Reeds: Jeff Hudgins. Percussion: timothy Quiley. Bass, Moog Bass Synth: Ian Riggs, Trumpet. Bass: Anthony Mascorro. Percussion: Arthur Solari (double cast)

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Photos by Luis Olazabel