Medea is considered the most notorious relationship tragedy in Greek Antiquity. The conflict culminates in Medea killing her own children, who are condemned to silence throughout the tragedy. Milo Rau turns this classic arrangement on its head in Medea’s Children: six young people between the ages of eight and thirteen speak up. Setting out from an actual crime and Medea’s multiple murder, the children reflect on the absurd and bloody tragedies of the adult world and on their own personal (tragic) realities. It is a short history of the theatre and an equally cruel as poetic school of life.
