Dutch with German and French surtitles
The Maillon in Strasbourg is showing Milo Rau's Medea's Children: we are offering a visit by bus. Milo Rau often draws the material for his works from true events or factual reports. Not out of sensationalism, but because personal tragedies often put our understanding of human behavior to the test. This is also the case in Medea's Children: in 2007, a mother brutally kills her five children in Belgium. This incomprehensible drama echoes the myth of Medea, the child murderer who stands by the Greek hero Jason, bears children in a foreign land and is then abandoned.
Tickets only available online, not on the bus.
The ticket includes admission to the Maillon and the return journey.
Return in Basel circa 21:30 Uhr.
Biografie
Milo Rau, born in Bern in 1977, is a director, author and lecturer and was director of the NTGent (Belgium). Rau studied sociology, German and Romance languages and literature in Paris, Berlin and Zurich with Pierre Bourdieu and Tzvetan Todorov, among others. Critics have described him as the “most influential” (Die Zeit), “most awarded” (Le Soir), “most interesting” (De Standaard), “most controversial” (La Repubblica), “most scandalous” (New York Times) or “most ambitious” (The Guardian) artist of our time. Since 2002, he has published over 50 plays, films, books and actions. His theater productions have been shown at all major international festivals, including the Berlin Theatertreffen, the Festival d'Avignon, the Venice Biennale, the Wiener Festwochen and the Brussels Kunstenfestivaldesarts and have toured over 30 countries worldwide.
Rau has received several awards, including the 3sat Prize 2017, the Saarbrücken Poetry Lectureship for Drama 2017 and, in 2016, the prestigious ITI Prize of the World Theater Day as the youngest artist after Frank Castorf and Pina Bausch. In 2017, he was voted Acting Director of the Year in the Deutsche Bühne poll, in 2018 he received the European Theater Prize for his work and in 2019 he was the first artist ever to be an Associated Artist of the European Association of Theatre and Performance (EASTAP). In 2020, he received the prestigious Münster Poetry Lectureship for his artistic oeuvre. His plays have been voted the best of the year in critics' polls in over 10 countries. In 2019, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund in Sweden, and in 2020 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Ghent. Milo Rau has been artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen since July 1, 2023.
Credits
Concept and Direction: Milo Rau
With: Peter Seynaeve / Lien Wildemeersch, Anna Matthys / Juliette Debackere, Emma Van de Casteele / Ella Brennan, Jade Versluys / Bernice Van Walleghem, Gabriël El Houari / Aiko Benaouisse, Sanne De Waele / Helena Van de Casteele, Vik Neirinck / Elias Maes
Dramaturgy: Kaatje De Geest
Scenography: ruimtevaarders (Karolien De Schepper, Christophe Engels)
Accessoires: Joris Soenen
Costume: Jo De Visscher
Light: Dennis Diels
Video: Moritz von Dungern
Sound: Elia Rediger
Coaching Play: Peter Seynaeve / Lien Wildemeersch
Production: NTGent
Coproduction : Wiener Festwochen / La Biennale de Venezia / ITA – Internationaal Theater Amsterdam / Tandem scène nationale