The premiere date is March 26, 2025.
Oksana Dmitrieva’s “Medea”, based on texts by Euripides and Heiner Müller, is a reflection on the times we live in. Detachment – in every sense – provokes a lot of taboo topics and difficult questions.
What does it mean to survive? To survive. Do we have the right to blame anyone? What do we have to do to prevent this hellish experience from turning a person into an enemy in their homeland? Either we ask ourselves about it or we remain silent. What does it mean to adapt in a foreign land? What does it mean to be cut off from your homeland?
What it means to be a witness. What happens when a witness is not believed?
And what happens to them afterward?
How are memories archived? And how does our brain work in general? Where do we store our traumatic experiences and how do we retrieve them at the most inopportune, inappropriate moments? Medea recalls step by step what happened in her native Colchis, why she ended up in Corinth, and why they want to expel her from Corinth again. Because she is a witness. What does it mean to be a witness? Are we ready to hear the truth?
The play contains invective and the language of the enemy (Russian).
Artistic management
- Directing, adaptation of the text - Honored Artist of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Oksana Dmitriieva
- Artist (set designer, costume designer) - Kostiantyn Zorkin
- Composer - Kateryna Palachova
- Choreographer-director - Dmytro Leka
- Choirmaster - Natalia Baidak
- Assistant directors - Lyubov Skirko, Anastasia Ogonovska
