»You gods, avert all pain from me. I have suffered enough. You know me now. I am Medea. A heartless murderer. I am not the one who will be defeated.« Medea, in this case, is not a virgin blinded by passion. Medea is heir to the throne of Colchis and fights against her father and her brother. She never left her home because her goal is not to marry Jason but to destroy the family of her father and the Colchian culture. Paata Tsikolia’s »Medea« is a completely unexpected new version of the myth. Medea is still in her home country, and the beaches drenched with Colchian blood are the ground on which this mythical character arises. It is here that everything started.

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