There is a moment in the second act of the play “The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea,” when Huitzilopochtli, god of the sun and war, is born. After birth, he fights the moon to defend his mother, the ...
TEHRAN- The Cinematheque of the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) is scheduled to screen a recorded stage performance of the Royal ...
With modern media’s growing offerings of female-centered retellings of classical tales, the ancient Greek myth of vengeful sorceress Medea may not seem so appealing. Medea, who takes revenge on her ...
In his director’s notes in the “Medea” program Vinnie Linares offers, “Euripides skillfully uses the myth of Medea to substantially challenge the notion of harmony and balance — wanting, I believe, to ...
In Greek mythology, there aren’t many hard-edged oppositions: people display an unholy mess of faults and qualities. Shadows lurk under every silver lining. The stuff of tragedy is born of that mess, ...
Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, and Madeline Weinstein in Medea (2020), dir. Simon Stone (all images courtesy of BAM, photos by Richard Termine © 2020) In Greek myth ...