NÉZŐPONT-PLURALIZMUS
PLURALISM OF VIEWPOINTS

Author(s): Béla Bíró
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Sociology of the arts, business, education
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: Medeea myth; Euripides; cultural relativism; ancient Greeks;
Summary/Abstract: This study superimposes two possible interpretations: the antique and the postmodernist interpretation of the Medeea myth. Besides Aristotle's texts from his Rhetorics the starting points is Euripides' Medeea as it was presented in Sfântu Gheorghe by the Áron Tamási Theatre. In the interpretation of the Romanian director, Mihai Măniuțiu, Euripides' play deepens into an example of the theory of cultural relativism. Confronting Medeea, speaking old Greek (that can be regarded a kind of barbaric language from the point of view of the Hungarian spectator)and the ancient Greeks, Yason, Kreon speaking Hungarian (the mother tongue of the audience but again a kind of barbaric language in the ears of the Romanian people) is a perfect way to illustrate the essential equivalence of the cultures and the absurdity of all nationalistic and ethnocentric ideologies.

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