Jason Medea Medley
by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart & Ensemble
Dresden Staatschauspiel
Direction / Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Design / Rosie Elnile
Composition and Musical Direction / Anna Clock
Light / William Sonntag, Olivia Walter
Dramaturg / Katrin Schmitz
Dramaturg Assistant / Lea Aupperle
Assistant Director / Fiona Wiedmann
Design Assistant / Coorentin Müller
Costume Assistant / Chiara Schmidt
Cast / Kriemhild Hamann, Sven Hönig, David Kosel, Oda Pretzschner
Musicians / Alexander Bersutsky, Karina Müller, Diana Bikbaev, Katrin Meingast
PRESS
The single mother's downfall is perfect. Woodcock-Stewart dissects modern life with a cool but playful eye - and here additionally with the mirror of Greek tragedy. It is about showing and hiding, the mysteries of everyday life. And about justice between two people. About love, which comes and goes Torben Ibs, Theater Heute
Everything is elegiac, tragic, touching Nachtkritik
Director Jaz Woodcock Stewart uses the mythical source as if from a quarry. She takes out what is appropriate, accentuates it anew and puts it together in an unusual way." The most impressive remains the enigmatic final image. Dresden News
Jaz Woodcock-Stewart turns the material into a study of disintegrating love in everyday relationships. nachtkritik.de, Michael Bartsch, 11.06.2023
Behind the strict rules and controlled surface, Medea's great emotions break through again and again, sometimes violently, sometimes restrained. Movements, actions and dispositions replace words Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, Friederike Partzsch, 15.06.2023