20:30h MEDEA’S BURQA (GREECE)

Date: 27.07.2024

Time: 20:30h

Location: The Halveti’s Tekke

A production of “Thessaly Theatre”-Greece

Theatre Show directed by Kyriaki D. Spanou

Theatrical work – screenplay: Andreas Flourakis; Director: Kyriaki D. Spanou: In the role of Medesa Marsela Lena: Scenography/Lighting: Zoi Moluvda Fameli: Costume: Martha Foka; Music: Aleksandros Tsionas: Photography: Pavlos Mavridis: In the recording of the music played: Vaggelis Tsiaples, Artemis Samaras.

About the show:

Medea’s Burka is a performance for an actress, three suitcases, milk, water and a microphone that opens before us the successive masks she wore over time, so that she no longer has a face…

What does it mean for a woman of different origin, culture and religion to have to give up her identity in order not to stand out from the women of the Western world? What is this “inevitable” pressure to homogenize everything? As the work says “…the skin is the burka” and it leads us to the existential question, if one can change one’s destiny and move forward in what one chooses!

The show is built around the idea of ​​the constant transformations that the female face undergoes to survive in a patriarchal and foreign world. It follows Medea’s face from her “manly upbringing” by her father to her abandonment by her husband in a foreign land, and focuses on her vulnerability in a world that, although it despises her, also wants to change it. Medea in this work in order to survive as she wants, uses the violence and murder she was accustomed to, but, in a great gesture of self-awareness, refuses to “confirm” her name and kill her children. She aspires to be the first Medea to leave her children alone in the perils of life. She may be a murderer, a creature of a patriarchal society, but she is determined to “save” the future she herself gave birth to