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Show
Medea's Children
Milo Rau
March 1 – 2, 2025
Running time: 90'
How do children cope with parental divorce? How do they deal with injustice, the breakup of a friendship, the stress of school? How do they cope with tragedy? With Medea’s Children, Milo Rau offers a new look at the role of children in theater. The starting point is a true crime case, which sees a mother decide to kill her children and take her own life. But she survives. This modern tragedy is intertwined with the classic tragedy of Medea, perhaps the darkest story at the roots of Western culture, involving relational conflict and infanticide. From this overlap, a group of children begin to reflect on family history, first love, and first encounters with death, desires for the future and fears related to the end of the world that we all share. A short history of theater and a school of life as cruel as it is poetic.
Milo Rau, born 1977 in Bern, is a director, writer, filmmaker, and artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen. He studied sociology, Germanic and Romance languages and literature in Paris, Berlin, and Zurich, under Pierre Bourdieu and Tzvetan Todorov, among others. Critics call him the “most influential” (Die Zeit), “most award-winning” (Le Soir), “most interesting” (De Standaard), “most controversial” (la Repubblica), “most scandalous” (The New York Times) or “most ambitious” (The Guardian) artist of our time. Since 2002, he has published more than fifty plays, films, books, and actions. His stage productions have been presented at major international festivals, including the Berlin Theatertreffen, Festival d’Avignon, Venice Biennale, Vienna Festival Weeks, and Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, and have toured more than thirty countries around the world.
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Info
Performance in Dutch with Italian and English surtitles.
Performance for adult audiences. Themes and scenes may upset the audience.
Due to ongoing works in Triennale, the theater is not accessible by lift. To avoid the stairs, enter through the gate in the park, in Viale Alemagna. The entrance is also accessible to people with disabilities.
Credits
With: Peter Seynaeve, Anna Matthys, Emma Van de Casteele, Jade Versluys, Gabriël El Houari, Sanne De Waele, Vik Neirinck
Concept & direction: Milo Rau
Dramaturgy: Kaatje De Geest
Set design: ruimtevaarders (Karolien De Schepper, Christophe Engels)
Props design: Joris Soenen
Costume design: Jo De Visscher
Light design: Dennis Diels
Video design: Moritz von Dungern
Sound design: Elia Rediger
Acting coaching: Peter Seynaeve, Lien Wildemeersch
Child guidance: Dirk Crommelinck
Production: NTGent
Coproduction: Wiener Festwochen, La Biennale de Venezia, ITA - Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Tandem - Scène nationale (Arras Douai)
