The new performance of the Theater Company Co-Epi (+,X) Dea Loer's Manhattan Medea will premiere at Apo Michanis Theater on 4 Of March 2013. The direction is by Efi Theodorou and the actors: Pantelis Dentakis, Andreas Kontopoulos and Ioanna Pappa.

For 25 only performances.

The modern version of Medea, written it 1999, by German author Dea Loher takes place in Manhattan. Medea and Jason are no longer children of kings or descendants of gods living in Corinth but illegal immigrants who have been forced to flee Europe. They have left behind their homeland in flames, in search of the New World, expecting to build their lives there from scratch. And they will do anything to survive and claim a better life. Their dreams are shattered in the melting pot of the American metropolis, and Jason abandons Medea for the daughter of a wealthy businessman, the young and rich Claire. On the eve of the wedding, Medea appears, determined to bring him back to her home on 5th Avenue at any cost and nothing will ever be the same.
Dea Loher's very interesting venture with elaborate language, poetic and deeply human, it wonderfully combines the ancient with the modern, speaking in today's language about all that the ancient myth deals with: the passion for life, the diversity, xenophobia, the struggle of the sexes, the passion, the oath, greed, the injustice, love, the betrayal.

Translated by George Depastas
Directed by Efi Theodorou
Scenery Nikos Anagnostopoulos
Costumes Ioanna Tsami
Lighting by Sakis Birbilis
Performed by the actors Pantelis Dentakis, Andreas Kontopoulos, Ioanna Pappa

Photos
Stamatis Abatis

A few words about the author
Dea Loher (Dea Loer)

Dea Lauer is one of the most important German voices in the field of playwriting. Her plays have been translated and performed in many countries around the world: Australia, Switzerland, France, England, Hellas, Finland, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic and Latin America. Born in 1964 in Bavaria. After finishing studies in German literature and philosophy in Munich, lived for some time in Brazil. He returned to Berlin, where he worked in radio and studied playwriting at the Hochschule der Künste under Heiner Müller and Yaak Karsunke.

He has written the plays: “At the Black Lake” (By Lake Schwarzer See, 2012), thieves (Thieves, 2010), The last fire (The Final Fire, 2008), “Life on Praça Roosevelt” (Life on the Praça Roosevelt, 2004),
“innocence” (Innocence, 2003), “Magazine of Happiness” (in seven parts, 2001), “The third sector” (2001), “Klara's circumstances” (2000), “Manhattan Medea” (1999), “Adam Spirit” (1998), “Blaubart – Hope of women” (1997), “Strange house” (1995), “Leviathan” (1993), “tattoo” (1992),”Olga Raum”, (1992).
She has won numerous awards for her various works.

Source : culturenow.gr