"There is no God" says Aegeus to Medea upon his return from the ravaged Oracle of Delphi. This is Dimitriadis’ first inversion, induced by the playwright to fundamentally deconstruct the archetypal myth. Medea loses her magical powers, is unable to kill her love rival and never murders her children. An unnatural causality prevails. Nothing follows the ancient myth, although equally horrific events take place: Glauce is killed by her father, while her children, Jason and the tutor are devoured by a dragon.
Medea is broken; without her powers and “deorum ex machina” to save her, she strives to maintain her identity and realize what has been foreshadowed. We come face to face with a Medea who is different than she appears to be, who backs down out of love for her children and spares them, one who is wounded and beyond salvation.
The characters of the play find themselves at a point in human history where nothing can protect them from exposure and the cruelty of a foreshadowed fate; disarmed and alone, in a barren and lonely universe.
PLAYS
The Price of Resistance in the Black Market, 1968
8 male - 6 female
Dying As a Country, 1978
Flexible
The Beginning of Life, 1995
3 male - 3 female
The Stunning of Animals before the Slaughter, 2000
7 male - 2 women
Settlement Proceedings, 2003
1 male - 2 female
Insenso, 2007
Monologue
Chrysippus, 2008
6 male - 4 female
Touching the Seabed, 2008
7 male - 3 female
The Circle of the Square, 2009
8 male - 3 female
Interest, 2010
4 male - 4 female
Civilization: A Cosmic Tragedy, 2013
5 male - 6 female - 2 children
Evacuation, 2013
5 female, 4 male and 4 chorus women
Phaethon, 2009
3 male - 2 female
In Chorus, 2015
15 (Chorus)
Reaping, 2016
2 male - 3 female
Stroheim, 2015
1 male - 2 female
ESSAYS
DIMITRIS DIMITRIADIS' THEATRE
Translation: Elena Delliou
In 2009, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti directed Howard Barker's Gertru...
In Chorus by Dimitris DImitriadis
Dimitris Dimitriadis was born in Thessaloniki. In 1963, with a scholarship from the Belgian state, he studied theater and cinema in Brussels at the...
