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Medea, who wants to be understood in terms of her thoughts and emotions and in her inner conflict, fails as a result. Incarcerated in her own traumatic experiences from the past, she can do nothing except reveal the atrocity upon which the city of Corinth is founded. But her own forgotten story hits her like a boomerang.
The PAN.OPTIKUM action theatre group removes the space which normally separates the audience from the stage. The audience is literally always on Medea’s heels and experiences all of the actors with immediacy between video projections, music and moving stage elements (set: Matthias Bringmann).
The spectators are repeatedly confronted with different perspectives on Media’s fate in extreme proximity to the figures; they are caught up in the story and go through her inner search for home together with her.
It is not until the very end that they are released into the auditorium and can take their seats, in the here and now, making it possible for them to perceive further perspectives from a distance in terms of time and space.
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