The Tides in Me(dea)

This play is a contemporary reimagining of Eurpides' Greek tragedy Medea and it explores the ordinary yet multidimensional South African woman who is constantly fighting a losing battle. Heartbroken and stricken with grief, Medea, sits begging and praying to her mother to release her from the pain she has experienced living in South Africa. The mother is a omnipresent entity that she keeps going back to for comfort and/or love; and is representative of the all the ears South African women are constantly begging to hear them. This play asks the question, “What are you doing South Africa?” “What are you doing to Medea, to our women?”. It asks where South African women's anger sits and why it keeps haunting us. The women are drowning, the women seek an urgent cleansing, they dig graves- their own graves. Medea is me, she is you, she is every woman seen and unseen. She resides in subtlety, she resides in chaos, she is beauty, she is beastly, and she is tired. In this performance we have found the voice to respond, it is time that she is heard, listen when she speaks.