Open AccessMedea Re-Imagined: A Wounded Call to Justice
Author(s) -
Anastasia Pantazopoulou
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
selected proceedings of the classics graduate student symposia at the university of florida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2831-588X
DOI - 10.32473/pcgss.v1i.130515
Subject(s) - tragedy (event) , economic justice , injustice , sacrifice , space (punctuation) , human sacrifice , criminology , sociology , aesthetics , art , history , law , political science , social science , philosophy , linguistics , ancient history , archaeology
This article discusses the theatrical re-imagining of Euripides’ Medea by Peter McGarry. In McGarry’s play, Medea is punished for her crime and sentenced to suffer the torment and consequences of her murder by repeatedly performing on stage her tragedy throughout time and space. McGarry’s Medea places a spotlight on an enduring facet of human experience, namely, the problem of injustice in its many aspects, comparing Medea’s “just cause” for revenge and killing her children with the wars that modern societies wage in the name of justice, vengeance, or even Gods, which always involve the sacrifice of children and young people to the greater good.