Productions
Set against the sparse backdrop of a beach, three actors and a chorus of dancers weave song, narrative, dance, and the multiple tongues of Tamil, Tsotsitaal, Kaapse Taal, Zulu, Latin, English Afrikaans and Xhosa into a new dramatic language.
Best Production of a new South African Work (winner) FNB Vita
(Magnet Theatre/Jazzart Dance Theatre)
““If the standard of Medea can be used as a yardstick, Fleishman and Reznek are on their way to forging a new dramatic language which will propel… South African theatre into a more hopeful era.”
Hazel Friedman, Mail & Guardian
“…sets landmark standards in theatricalising cross-cultural performance.”
Adrienne Sichel, The Star Tonight!
“Jazzart Dance Theatre and Magnet Theatre’s collaborative Medea is a work of gritty ingenuity. It seizes Greek tragedy by the throat, fragments it, culturally cross-fertilizes it then reinvents it without losing any of its original power…. Gripping theatrical performance.”
Adrienne Sichel, Cue
Dates
1994
Places performed
Nico Arena, Cape Town;
National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown;
Market Theatre, Johannesburg.
Credits
Direction: Mark Fleishman and Jennie Reznek
Choreography: Alfred Hinkel
Design: Craig Leo
Lighting: Julian August
Music arrangement: Rene Avenant
Performed by: Bo Peterson, Kurt Wustmann, Jay Pather, Dawn Langdown, Heinrich Reisenhofer
Chorus: John Linden, Simpiwe Magazi, Geli Schubert, Penny-Colleen Swain Mpotseng Shuping, Busisiwe Ngebulana, Sbonakaliso Ndaba , Randall Dirks, Sifiso Kweyama
Material
