Black medea
CATEGORy
Undergraduate Project
Location
Grant Street Theatre, MEL
Year
2021
Black Medea is an evocative story that addresses confronting and taboo universal topics such as domestic violence and exploitation of sacred indigenous sites. The following 4 key themes can be extracted from the texts: desolation, spiteful grief, exploitation (of love and nature) and omnipotent nature. These 4 themes address the relationship between Jason and Medea, their child and nature that binds their existence.
Set and lighting design concepts of the play is based on the suggested themes above and inspired by sandcastle in the midst of crashing waves. There is a sense of desolation and impending doom from this picture. The small dots towards the horizon are almost like fragments of the sandcastle that were washed away. This picture was chosen to express the relationship between Jason and Medea. Medea as the sand as she came from the desert and Jason from the sea. And how they cant exist without one or the other but too much of one ruins the other. Alternatively, this is also to show the impermanence and fragility of mankind in the face of nature’s destruction. As the story reaches a climatic end, the wave organzas will fall off using a kabuki drop, allowing the audience to be fully engulfed in vast desert created using a mirror visual effect.
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