Eriopis - Medeian selviytyjätytär kertoo kaiken
The myth of Medea has shaken people for millennia. The story of a filicidal mother has been re-interpreted again and again through a variety of artforms, without it ever been exhausted. Now E.L. Karhu approaches the myth from a new, startling angle: the viewpoint of a survivor, one left behind. After her mother and brothers disappear, Eriopis, the daughter of an absent father Jason and a neglecting mother Medea, has to manage on her own. But is she even now able to tell her own story or will others tell it for her? The press and the television feed on the tragedy for their own narratives, but does Eriopis have a voice of her own at all?
This shattering and passionate play lives simultaneously in eternal archetypes and today's media world bursting with stimuli. It is a poetic and carnal dive into the mind of a suffering human being.
The play has been translated into English, French and German. It had its world premiere at Schauspiel Leipzig in 2020.
