The surrealist, imagistic production included two stories playing out in opposition at the same time in Act One: the expressionistic realm of the Medea tale in contrast with a realistic dressing room setting of a Greek chorus of young women preparing for prom. Hairspray, sparkles, brightly colored, billowing dresses and mauve carpet, exploded from the Medea’s geometrical black and white heart, stained with bloody footprints. Medea marked the eleventh collaboration between Lorraine and Smith.
Featuring Melissa Lorraine, Carlo Lorenzo Garcia, Simina Contras, Barry Hubbard, Julian Stroop, Jack Swokowski, Sierra Buffum, Meredith Montgomery, Briana Morris, Lexi Saunders, Katie Sherman, Kristin Walker, Aaron Lamm, Nicholas Wenz, Geordie Denholm and Mike McCarthyĮuripides’ classic tale of the tragic choices of a woman scorned, adapted by inhumanist American poet Robinson Jeffers, Smith’s Medea was Theatre Y’s most ambitious and experimental work to date, with a maddeningly baroque and intricate process and a cast of 16.
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