Medea and Its Double January 17, 2010

Classical Western theater has been adapted for Korean and foreign audiences to raise the ease of their appreciation and delight. Beginning with the workshop performance, 'Medea and its double creates' a new style by combining not only Korean voices and martial arts, but also techniques of the Beijing Opera and Indian Odissi tradition with classic theater. It newly interprets Euripides' Medea as two characters with different mentalities. The subject is Medea as a mother vs. Medea as a lover. The performance utilizes daily sounds and voice work derived from the Korean traditional Korean one-person opera !pansori' and traditional folk song. It will be performed n Korean with English subtitles.