Medea - it´s a classic

MEDEA - IT´S A CLASSIC
Premiere: March 2016 at MDT in Stockholm.
Initiator: Nadja Hjorton.
With and by: Daniel Andersson, Halla Olafsdottir, Shirley Harthey Ubilla, Nadja Hjorton.
Composer: Britta Persson.
Lights, set design and costume: Chrisander Brun.
Photo: Chrisander Brun
Producer: Siri Hjorton Wagner.
Medea is a co-production between MDT, Uppsala Stadsteater, Norrlands operan and ÖFA-kollektivet.
Residency: Turteatern, Reykjavik Dance Festival. Supported by the Swedish Arts Council, the city of Stockholm and the Stockholm County Council. The presentation is part of the project [DNA] Departures and Arrivals, which is co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Commission.

Medea is a fucking annoying person. To revenge her boyfriend Jason she kills her children, and takes the opportunity to kill King Creon and his daughter while she’s at it.



Medea is an oppressed, humiliated woman who rises and does the impossible - she slaughters patriarchy, reproduction and heteronormativity during one thrilling day in Corinth.



There are different stories.
Medea -it's a classic uses the classic drama - its function, aesthetics, symbolism and structure - as a filter for choreography and music. It creates absurd, bodily, musical and spacial displacements in which meaning and significance can unfold in the meeting with an audience. With too-much-of-everything and Dionysian decadence Medea -it's a classic wants to include more narratives in the Medea myth.

Medea -it´s a classic is based on Euripides’ play Medea. Nadja uses the play as a starting point, choreographic score, and as a condition for the process. She is interested in how very well-known classical plays historically, culturally, dramaturgically and philosophically relate to contemporary life. Nadja wants to raise the question of which narratives we implicitly and explicitly choose to reproduce, assuming that by choosing we also do a large gesture of excluding. Which text-based, bodily, structural and historical narratives do we give space and authority to in our public and private lives?

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