How do you solve a problem like Medea - Anne-Louise Sarks

Saro Lusty-CavallariSeptember 11, 2015Anne-Louise Sarks, Belvoir St Theatre, The Gate Theatre, Greek Myth, Greek Tragedy, Medea, All About Medea, The Hayloft Project, Victoria College of the Arts, AdaptationComment

How do you solve a problem like Medea - Blazey Best

Saro Lusty-CavallariSeptember 2, 2015Blazey Best, Belvoir St Theatre, Medea, Anne-Louise Sarks, Wesley Enoch, Gender politics, Domestic violence, Black Medea, Greek Myth, Greek Tragedy, Sydney, Sydney Fringe, Adaptation Comment

How do you solve a problem like Medea - Kate Mulvany

Saro Lusty-CavallariAugust 24, 2015Kate Mulvany, Anne-Louise Sarks, Belvoir St Theatre, Anthea Williams, Blazey Best, Medea, Masquerade, Domestic violence, P, Playwright Comment

How do you solve a problem like Medea - Wesley Enoch

What initially drew you to Medea?

It was the next show I worked on after The 7 Stages of Grieving and there was a sense of looking at key issues that the Indigenous community were dealing with, but looking at it in a more tangential sense. Rather than writing a play about domestic relationships and violence in the home, I thought there had to be a better way of saying it and that was something that takes the ideas of spirituality and location and difference. And so Medea was that story. And I was always drawn to the Greek stories – I like the narratives that they have and in some respects Medea is the flipside of the Oedipus story. Oedipus is a story which goes, “here’s the man’s journey into demise and tragedy”. The women’s story for me is Medea, in the very public and popular kind of way.