Haunted by the myth of Medea, Heiner Müller, a major figure in 20th-century theater, composed this three-title poem in 1983. Three short, fragmentary plays in battle with history and the worlds of the time. His friend and fellow artist Matthias Langhoff was present at their premiere in (still East) Germany. A few years later, Langhoff took up the work again, with actors Marcial Di Fonzo Bo and Frédérique Loliée, and built a new version of this theatrical monument, whose torment remains frighteningly topical.
A family story, then, of loyalties and struggles against that which returns again and again, perhaps worse, and goes round in circles. The considerable invention of a critical poetics, both tragic and playful, where we wander among the ruins of yesterday?s progress, somewhere between capitalism and Marxism, catastrophe and beauty.
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A family story, then, of loyalties and struggles against that which returns again and again, perhaps worse, and goes round in circles. The considerable invention of a critical poetics, both tragic and playful, where we wander among the ruins of yesterday?s progress, somewhere between capitalism and Marxism, catastrophe and beauty.
duration 1h
caution: reduced capacity
