Medea in Athen

STRANGE SUN
The Argonauts. Jason. Medea.
A six-part series by Roland Schimmelpfennig
Episode VI.

Directed by Karin Beier

VI. Medea in Athens: The Son She Found

After murdering her children, Medea flees to King Aegeus in Athens, who grants her asylum on the condition that she bear him the long-awaited heir to the throne.

We watch two people living their middle-class married life on drugs: Medea as a “tradwife” and her new husband Aegeus, a cynical, degenerate head of state, have both given themselves over entirely to alcohol. Then the doorbell rings: A certain Theseus stands there and claims to be Aegeus’s son.

Following in the footsteps of the classic “well-made play,” *Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?*, Roland Schimmelpfennig has written a fast-paced and bitterly caustic satyr play that weaves the myth of Medea into our present-day context of an eroding middle class.

Starring: Lina Beckmann, Wolfram Koch, and others

Director: Karin Beier
Set design: Johannes Schütz
Costumes: Wicke Naujoks
Music: Jörg Gollasch
Video: Severin Renke
Lighting: Annette ter Meulen
Dramaturgy: Sybille Meier

More info:Medea in Athens | Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg