Medeää – 214 descriptions

After the play by Euripides and the TV Movie by Lars von Trier (1989).

"Bertolt Brecht meets Lars von Trier. That's great!"
3sat, Kulturzeit, 31.7.2002

The director Samuel Schwarz has collaborated with the author Lukas Barfuss to create their adaptation of the Medea story inspired primarily, by director Lars von Trier's film version, made for Danish Television. Trier's film is performed onstage (by zombies) as a series of pictorial descriptions.

Barfuss has turned the original Danish texts into phonetic "Swiss-German", which adds a layer of verbal slapstick to the whole event, until the last scene, when Medeää hangs her children on a tree.

The project has won the ZKB-price at the Zürich Theaterspektakel and was already shown in Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Bochum.

On 1. and 2. November 2002 400asa showed "Medeää" at ZENTROPA-STUDIOS in Kopenhagen.

The project has found the way home.

Tailers available:
Acoustic Trailer (for Real Player)
Visual Trailer (for Real Player)

Further Information:
Opening Monologue
Pictures
Hi-Res-Pics for Download
Feature 3sat, Kulturzeit, 31.7.2002
Reviews
Description, Background and Participants (German)