MEDUSA
Caravaggio painted her. Shakespeare wrote about her. Freud had a bloody field day.
Image by Andi Crown Photography with design by William Duignan
“Emotional anarchy, comedic, purgative, liberating...I am profoundly grateful I got to experience it.”
With a head of poisonous snakes and a murderous gaze, Medusa has come to epitomise female monstrosity. Caravaggio painted her. Shakespeare wrote about her. Freud had a bloody field day.
From acclaimed feminist theatre makers Julia Croft, Virginia Frankovich and Nisha Madhan comes a new work of dissection and dissent on female bodies, female violence and female rage. With Medusa as their muse, and Jill Soloway as their spiritual guide, Medusa is a blood boiler, a stealthy deconstruction, and one of feminism's great reclamations.
Created by JULIA CROFT, VIRGINIA FRANKOVICH & NISHA MADHAN
Performed by JULIA CROFT, VIRGINIA FRANKOVICH/BRONWYN ENSOR & NISHA MADHAN
Sound Design by CLAIRE DUNCAN
Performance Design by MEG ROLLANDI
Dramaturg KATE PRIOR
Lighting Design & Technical Operation by CALVIN HUDSON
Production Management by RUBY REIHANA-WILSON
Produced & Presented by ZANETTI PRODUCTIONS
Medusa was first produced at Circa Theatre, Wellington on 21st September 2018.
“Sublimely monstrous”
“hard to forget and shouldn’t be forgotten”
“[Medusa] is an absorbing, bolshy, scarily beautiful and fiercely uncompromising creature”
UPCOMING & PREVIOUS SEASONS
WELLINGTON, NZ
21 September - 6 October, 2018
Circa Theatre
AUCKLAND, NZ
24 October - 3 November, 2018
Q Theatre