MEDEA

SUMMARY:
The well-known myth of Medea is presented here as a search for the answer as to why and how Medea punished Jason's infidelity with the murder of her own children. It is a search for everything that must have gone on in her head during those last moments before Jason's marriage - despair, fear, unquenched love and the ultimate inability to accept the truth that Jason has stopped loving her gradually transform Medea into a lost and weak woman. Since she is a warrior at heart, she is incapable of accepting defeat not even at the cost of her own life or the lives of her own children. This is a story about love and the rejection of life without it, woven from a woman's feelings and deliberations.

SUMMARY:
Before sleep, a grandmother and her grand-child think up a story about a journey to a village and an encounter with ruthless killers and jail escapees. Grandma tells the story to her grand-daughter, and the child gradually transforms it into a horror-story inspired by American film hits packed with violence.

The radio-play was premiered on the Drama Programme of Croatian Radio in 1997.

BIOGRAPHY:

Nives Madunić Barišić was born in Osijek in 1968. She graduated in Croatian Language from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and studied dramaturgy at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. She wrote the plays: The Wind and the Devil, 1993; Tears Always Fall to Earth, 1994; It Used To Be Better, 1997; Not the First Time Nor the Last, 1998; Medea, 2000. As a student of dramaturgy, she won the University of Zagreb Chancellor's Award and the Antun Gustav Matoš Award for the best drama text published in the Zagreb AGM publisher's magazine Plima. Ms Barišić works as a dramaturg-editor for the Croatian Radio Plima magazine. She is associate dramaturg for a number of theatres, and her essays, theatre critiques and portraits of artists appear in numerous newspapers and magazines.

ADDRESS:

Nives Madunić Barišić, Katićev prilaz 3, 10000 Zagreb
Tel/Fax: +385 1 667 1672