Premiere March 20th 2010 at 5 pm.
Plays until April 13th 2010 at Copenhagen´s Music Theatre (Københavns Musikteater)
Plays Mon-Fri at 8 pm and Sat. at 5 pm.
With Helene Gjerris in the title part the director, Lars Kaalund with FIGURA Ensemble take on one of the great classics in a newly composed opera, which premieres at Copenhagen’s Music Theatre on March 20th 2010.
Is Medea a heroine or a madwoman?
The deceived Medea takes a cruel and almost absurd revenge. She murders her own children. Is it possible to understand this deed and does her surroundings share the responsibility? In this version of Medea, the focus is on what it means to be a stranger. The eternally fleeing Medea is like the main character in a road movie. Incessantly she must reinvent herself in her attempt to win respect and accept, and is finally put up against an ultimate dilemma: To accept her role or rebel and choose the final exclusion.
The 4 Angles
Medea’ s journey from town to town, from one culture to the next, is illustrated through four acts in four different dramatic styles, and takes the version’s Medea through an adventurous love meeting, a ritual forced marriage and a bloody murder at home in Medea’s kitchen.
4 ANGLES ON MEDEA is directed by Lars Kaalund and written by Peter Laugesen. On stage are Helene Gjerris, Aileen Itani, Andreas Landin and Jakob Bloch Jespersen with the musicians Anna Klett, Jesper Egelund and Frans Hansen. The music is composed by Malin Bång, Henrik Hellstenius, Nicolai Worsaae and Steingrimur Rohloff.
"They do surprisingly well, and with the deeply poetic front and rear edges of the air light, glassy sounds and a close up video projection of Medea's singing face, it is a pure delight."
"Helene Gjerris - which like the rest of Figura handles music and song with convincing authority"
"sensual and thought-provoking show."
Henrik Friis, Politiken 23.03.2010
“It's original, while providing variation in the musical expression, which is impressive when the orchestra crew consists only of the Figura Ensemble trio on clarinet, bass and percussion.”
"Quite clever Kaalund has modernized and made a public scenic expression [...] On the whole, the video spots operates with an often quite dramatic lighting as nice co-writing elements of the performance"
"On stage Helene Gjerris burns clear as Medea with a flame-thrower voice and dramatic presence opposite Jakob Bloch Jespersen's brutal Jason."
Henrik Lyding, Jyllands-Posten 23.03.2010