$20 General Admission
$18 Student/Senior
August 6 through August 29, 2010
Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m.
Sundays at 6 p.m.

What happens when emotions run high and people are put in difficult situations? Crossing the thin lines between love and hate, sanity and insanity, can be horrific and sometimes inevitable. The Knightsbridge Theatre invites you to join them to identify with the human struggle with our darker, primal urges that tempt us and force us to choose what is healthy and honorable or cause us to commit far more heinous crimes with Medea, beginning Friday, August 6, 2010.

Set in modern day at The Corinth Mental Institution, Medea (Adalgiza Chemountd) is cast aside by her husband, Jason of the Argonauts (Max Horner), while having been committed to an insane asylum for schizophrenia and under Creon's psychiatric care. Tortured by love, betrayal, anger, a broken heart and the chorus of voices in her head (Shaina Vorspan, Lauren Wells, Karen Richter), Medea descends into madness and a vengeful rage leading her to the unthinkable. Joined by cast members Sara Maraffino, Nicholas Hope, R. Benito Cardenas, Jill Gehrke, Ari Skye and Fionn James, Medea takes "an eye for an eye" further than you can ever imagine.

Written by Greek playwright Euripides, Medea is based upon the legend of Medea and Jason and was first produced in Greece well over 2400 years ago. The play centers around the end of their marriage as Jason divorces Medea, a social liability for a younger woman. Euripides wrote over 90 plays in his lifetime and many of his works aroused great opposition and controversy based on his unorthodox portraits of women as being strong, independent individuals. In addition to Medea, some of his most famous plays include The Bacchae and Electra. Although centuries old, Medea is still highly acclaimed due to its intensity and universal themes of revenge and justice in an unjust society.

Medea marks Travis Terry's first directorial venture with the Knightsbridge Theatre. Terry brings with him a production team that includes The Los Angeles Opera's Noriko Kakihara as Costume Designer, New York University Alum JC Gafford as Lighting Designer, Cloie Wyatt Taylor as Choreographer and Ivette Hermann as Hair and Makeup Designer. The set, designed by Dionne Poindexter, will feature the artwork of local artist Audra Phillips, who has created four new original pieces for Medea, including the program and postcard artwork.

Medea contains adult situations and language.

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