Daily News | James Ijames crafts a Medea inspired by the ‘Real Housewives’ in a Philly world premiere
is one of Ijames’ first new works since the award. The production pairs renowned Philly theater makers with student actors from Community College of Philadelphia, Bryn Mawr College, and Haverford College.
’s Norma Desmond. The chorus — operating here as a cacophony of social media commentary — follows the drama closely. Medea plots her revenge on Jason’s new family, killing Glauce, Glauce’s father, and her own children.as an undergraduate, the play was scary but undeniably compelling. The final act “was so disturbing to me, it just never left me,” he told The Inquirer.
He devised more speaking roles for women, like Medea’s aunt, Circe, who becomes the children’s caretaker, and Glauce, the Paris Hilton-like princess. The children, Devan and Shel, get a bigger spotlight, too. One acting note from Myrick-Hodges stuck, Debose said: “Medea is not crazy for going ballistic on her family. So don’t play her crazy. Why is she doing this?”“I do not treat students any differently than I treat professional artists, it doesn’t serve them and it doesn’t serve the show,” said Myrick-Hodges. “I have exactly the same ridiculous dramas with grown professional acting artists as I do with sophomores, because the risk that it takes to make work is the same.
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