Médeia
Medea

Summary/Abstract: In our current issue we offer a contemporary adaptation of the Medea myth by Australian writers, Kate Mulvany and Anne-Louis Sarks, translated into Hungarian by Jozefina Komporály. The play, based on Euripides’s work, situates the Ancient Greek myth within the frame of a marriage crisis, and presents the distant but affecting conflict of the adults through the attitudes, games and experiences of their children. Although Medea’s character appears only very seldom on stage, the play poignantly depicts the internal conflicts of the mother who kills her children and draws attention to the perspective of the children themselves. Medea was written in 2012, as a result of a two-week-long workshop involving two boys, then aged 11 and 12, also using some of their ideas. The play (directed by Anne-Louise Sarks) was premiered in the same year at the Belvoir Theatre in Sydney and received several prestigious awards in Australia. Subsequently, it was also staged in Poland, the UK and New-Zealand.

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