Our next production went back to a world 2500 years older than today. We were drawn towards Euripides because of his unflinching depiction of the decadence of his age, an era which had witnessed the decline of the civilization of Athens. His ability to interpret his milieu accurately attracted us, for we were trying to gain an insight into our own time, to come to grips with our own heritage of decadence. “ The Greeks have surpassed in barbarity even those that they call barbarians “ – this observation from another play by Euripides had seemed to us to be a fitting curtain raising cue for our production of Medea in 1983, a play which illustrates the destructive potential of the resentment and rage bred by years of exploitation by the powers-that-be.
Credits –
Lights – Tapas Sen
Music - Partha Sengupta
Stage – Manu Datta
Translation – Abhijit Sen
Direction - Salil Bandyopadhyay
Cast -
Medea -Arundhati Bandyopadhyay
Jason - Ranjan Sarkar /Sumanta Mukhopadhyay
Creon -Bijoy Chakraborty
Aegeus – Abhijit Sen
Nurse – Sabita Raha
Tutor – Subho Basu/ Biswaroop Purakayastha
Messenger – Babu DattaRoy
Chorus – Papia Adhikari, Basabi Bhattacharya, Srabani Dasgupta
Others - Soumitra Ghosal, Babai Raha.
