By Ernest Kearney — It is regrettable that more audiences didn’t have the opportunity of seeing Butoh Medea, an adaptation of Euripides’ harrowing Greek classic of a mother who, due to the betrayal and infidelities of her husband, was driven to slaughter her children.
Written by Sean Michael Welch and directed by Brian Rhinehart this staging has a distinctive modern feel; with Medea (Yokko) emerging from the darkness to the chatter of a busy mall. It is from there that Medea endures the gauntlet of blows against her as a woman and as a foreigner as she staggers to the play’s horrific conclusion.
Performing Artist, Yokko (HFF18)
The lesson is as true today as it was in Euripides’ time: It is a society’s injustice that creates the monsters that destroy it.
Choreographed by Jordan Rosin and Yokko, the show employed the Butoh style to show us in the most intimate fashion the descent of a frightened woman into a creature capable of the most monstrous of acts, and to make her pain our own.
Yokko’s performance was nothing short of spellbinding.
Superbly served by Derek Van Heel’s lighting and the sound score by Ren Gyo Soh.
A PLATINUM MEDAL.
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