MEDEALAND

Original title: 
Medealand
Agegroup: 
Adults
Cast: 
5f, 2m

Stridsberg’s version of Euripides’ Medea offers striking variations on literature’s cruellest divorce. Here, Medea becomes an emblem of justified female rage, who refuses to ‘get over it’, to forgive, and reassemble her life according to someone else’s wishes; the polar opposite to the sweet princess Jason has left her for. Medealand explores the titular character’s relationship to her own late mother alongside her relationship to her two sons and her new frightening status as childless mother and shows us just how close passion can be to hate, and desperate revenge fantasy to actual revenge.

Press: 

‘She is strong, stubborn, extremely jealous, and vengeful. Stridsberg has created a universe in which we, with the myths as a backdrop, are shown a more feminist interpretation of the story of a young mother of two who has not been married long enough to be eligible for settled status, and who is brutally undone’ Amund Grimstad, Klassekampen

‘Medealand is an intense experience and makes you feel physical disgust as well as compassion’ Charlotte Myrbråten, Bergens Tidende

‘Medea is more human than monster in Stridsberg’s drama’ Ann Kristin Ødegård, Bergenavisen

’Medealand remains a play that does not let us off the hook: do we want to; do we dare to continue to be adults and children in a world that looks like this?’ Malena Forsare, Expressen

’all the cruelty is written with such beauty’  Ghita Makowska Rasmussen, Politikken

More Information: 

The play premiered in 2009 at Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and has since been produced in Denmark, Norway, France, Brazil and Mexico