MEDEA

Directed by Zishan Ugurlu
Technology designed and developed by CultureHub
Performed by the Great Jones Repertory Company

The Club at La MaMa & Community Arts Space
74A East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
April 11th – April 28th
Tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/42

Well, if you are looking for a different theatrical experience, La MaMa comes through again. MEDEA, performed by the Great Jones Repertory Company, is a multi-media production that you can see in person or stream online.

Your introduction begins through the telephone screen of a young man waiting to enter Detention Center 174. As he implores you to contact his friend David, we are allowed entrance to the center. Here we witness a series of immigrants identified only by numbers answer questions about why and how they are in the United States. Those lucky enough to proceed further into the center are met with a cacophony of voices in different accents and languages. In fact, a great deal of the presentation is performed in an unidentifiable language, and yet you are mesmerized throughout. What is easy to identify is the universality of wanting a home that is welcoming and safe for both the individual and their family.

Audience (online) participation is encouraged as you are asked to turn on your web camera, join the chat, and click your cursor to help a mother enable a curse as she learns her children will be exiled. And in-person participation is commemorated by a memorial of tying ribbons displaying the names of immigrants lost, a book where notes can be left, and a bowl of soup. MEDEA is an experience that will leave your heart open with compassion, awareness, and a desire to help. La MaMa has that covered too. Check out their Resource Center – they are sponsoring several drives and charitable efforts for immigrants.

- Laurie Lawson -