As a Greek, it is always both weird and interesting to watch works that draw from the Classics in Asian cinema, but this exact thing happened once more, this time in a stage play, with “Medea and her Double”, a Korean rendition of Euripides’s tragedy “Medea”, being performed in Poland.
“Medea and her Double” is screening at InlanDimensions
Limb Hyoung-taek’s rendition actually starts a bit before the original, showing Medea running away with her lover Jason after a period of flirting, and eventually giving birth to his two children. However, eventually Jason leaves and marries Glauce, the daughter of Creon, to further his quest for riches and power. Burning with anger and feeling a sense of intense injustice, Medea draws a plan to take revenge on everyone that wronged her, but eventually she decides to go even further.
Limb directs a play that combines a number of different...
“Medea and her Double” is screening at InlanDimensions
Limb Hyoung-taek’s rendition actually starts a bit before the original, showing Medea running away with her lover Jason after a period of flirting, and eventually giving birth to his two children. However, eventually Jason leaves and marries Glauce, the daughter of Creon, to further his quest for riches and power. Burning with anger and feeling a sense of intense injustice, Medea draws a plan to take revenge on everyone that wronged her, but eventually she decides to go even further.
Limb directs a play that combines a number of different...
- 10/1/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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