Date:
Location:
Shivaike Shah, Khameleon Productions
With discussant Naomi A. Weiss, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities, Department of Classics, Harvard University
Co-sponsored with Department of the Classics; Theater, Dance & Media; and the Office for the Arts at Harvard University
The Uprooting Medea project provides a provocative lens on Euripides’s canonic ‘Western’ play Medea by exploring and questioning contemporary themes of race, belonging, identity, home and otherness. The production reimagines Euripides’s Greek tragedy with an all-global majority cast and crew, and features original compositions, movement and spoken word.
This presentation will introduce the Medea project and discuss the development and adaptation of the work since its original conception in Oxford. We will explore the creative practice of elevating global-majority artists through multimedia forms including theatre, film, music and poetry. The presentation will give an insight into the upcoming short film project (to be released later in 2022.)
