Winner of the Creative Capital Award, SXSW Panel Picks, and National Association of Latino Arts and Culutures via The Ford Foundation, La Medea re-imagines Euripides’ myth into a Latin-disco-pop-feminist variety show. At once an immersive musical and a simulcast film, La Medea is directed, performed, shot, and edited in real time creating a high-stakes vulnerability for cast, crew, and audiences alike. Performers and camera women play the characters, while studio audiences act as the Greek chorus and film extras. The pervasive figure of the wild foreign woman who vengefully murders her own children is shattered in this genre-bending multidimensional dismantling of an ongoing toxic myth. Challenging the idea of a “dangerous,” “hysterical,” foreign woman, La Medea reveals an infinite woman that rejects the limited gaze imposed on her for centuries. (yaratravieso.com)

Written, Directed, and Choreographed by Yara Travieso
Original Music and Libretto by Sam Crawford

Performed by Shayla Vie Jenkins, Rena Butler, Catherine Correa, Tiffany Mellard, Erick Montes, Sol Koeraus and Niurca Marquez
Music Performed by Jason And The Argonauts, Liz de Lise, Zeb Gould, Jeff Hudgins, Timothy Quigley, Ian Riggs, Anthony Mascorro, Arthur Solari

Collaborators: Tuçe Yasak (lighting designer), Brookhart Jonquil (set designer), Sue Julien (costume designer), Pamela Giaroli (director of photography), Liz Charky (assistant director and camera operator), and Ryan Hartley Smith (illustration and mask design)

Premiered during Performance Space 122’s Coil Festival at BRIC January  20 - 22 2017

Commissioned by Performance Space 122
Touring includes Amherst College (2017), SXSW Panel Picker (2017), Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, ODC Theater (2018), MDC Live Arts (2018), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2019)

http://yaratravieso.com/lamedea

https://howlround.com/happenings/performances-la-medea-yara-travieso