24H MEDEA is a new work of live performance, conceived and directed by artist/scholar Jack Isaac Pryor. 24H MEDEA asks: how might we interrupt cycles of violence, including those that seem overdetermined by history and the archive that it leaves in its wake? In Euripides’s tragedy upon which this project is based, Medea–marked as an ethnic and gender outsider–infamously slays her two children at the play’s end. But is another outcome of this story possible? 24H MEDEA is structured as a durational, ensemble-based performance in which the tragedy of Medea is repeated 24 times over the course of an entire day. With each round, performers switch roles and begin again: each time a real experiment to see what happens–and what might shift–through repetition, duration, and the contingency of the live event.

Open rehearsals:

Wednesday, October 25th, 2:30-4pm*

Thursday, October 26th, 11am-12:30pm*

DC Black Box Theater

*Masks required 

Lecture/Demonstration: Jack Isaac Pryor & Ensemble:

Friday, October 27th, 4:30-5:30pm

DC Black Box Theater

Reception to follow

Contact: lreckson@haverford.edu 

24H MEDEA is sponsored by the Provost Office’s Distinguished Visitors Program and the English Department’s Weaver Fund.