Seongbukdong Beedoolkee Theatre “MEDEA on Media”(NY)
Co-presented by Korean Cultural Center New York and NYU Skirball Center
Saturday, November 11, 2023, 7:30 PM
Sunday, November 12, 2023, 4:00 PM
Venue: NYU Skirball center
(566 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012)
*Recommended for ages 14 and up.
*This performance contains adult language, mature themes, and the use of gun props. A non-tobacco cigarette is also smoked briefly.
Tickets: $46 (General admission)
“This is a Medea for the age of information overload, where violence and vulgarity permeate many forms of entertainment, from tv cartoons to confessional talk shows to video games… cannily narrows the gap between the classical and contemporary world.”
– The Business Times
The work is performed in Korean with English supertitles.
Seongbukdong Beedoolkee, an innovative contemporary theater company based in Seoul, South Korea, makes its NYC debut with an original take on the enduring Greek tragedy of Medea.
MEDEA on Media recasts the ancient tale as a commentary on contemporary media and serves it to the audience in outrageous ways, including talk shows, action movies, Disney cartoons, and an Instagrammable yoga class. With plenty of physicality and a dash of silliness, MEDEA on Media is also clever and profound.
Led by director Kim Hyun-tak, Seongbukdong Beedoolkee Theatre freely deconstructs the texts of both well-known masterpieces and modern Korean dramas to recreate them, incorporating contemporary social issues. Often, Kim’s performances use a different theatrical style depending on the material and topic, such as dance theatre, melodramatic film, or physical theatre, and most of them include active audience participation.
MEDEA on Media is co-presented by the Korean Cultural Center New York and the NYU Skirball Center to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the ROK-U.S. Alliance.
This program is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea and the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange as part of the Traveling Korean Arts Project.