Is it an act of love or cruelty to bring a life to a world that is wasting away?? In this ambitious revision of Euripides' classic, Medea sheds her tyrant label to embody eco-anxiety and fear of tomorrow. Alone on stage, faced with her own internal debates, this Medea does not seek revenge, but a response to a devastated horizon.
In this version of Arantxa Cortés, myth merges with climate reality. Medea no longer flees from Colchis, but from fire: She is a climate refugee expelled from her home by the fires ravaging the planet. The historic "golden fleece" is reinterpreted here as the dark object of desire of our era: the ferocious exploitation of natural resources and the extractive wars that bleed the territories dry.
Medea becomes a piece of testimony, a mirror of the internal migrations that our country already suffers and a question thrown into the air of these fifteen years of festival: Who will walk behind us? It is an ode to intergenerational responsibility and a radical questioning of hope in an environment that becomes, at times, inhabitable.
