Medealand

At the webpage of Oslo International Theatre the following, among other things, is written about Medealand:

"In Medealand Sara Stridsberg (Sweden) sets the story of Medea in a modern timescape. When Jason leaves her, Medea loses her permit to live in Corinth, but she has nothing to return to in Colchis. She is trapped in a society where she is unwanted, with no rights, a stranger. Stridsberg humanises Medea's desperate actions and her flight into madness. She sees the world through the eyes of Medea, a world in which the health care system and the government represent an unstable Goddess, and in which Medea gradually leaves her role as an individual to become an icon: The rejected, the revenger, the child murderess.

Sara Stridsberg had success with the novel The Dream Faculty in 2006, a book honoured with The Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2007. The novel was later staged as theatre under the title Valerie Jean Solanas Will Be President of America. In Norway one could see the play directed by Kjersti Horn at The National Theatre, in a critically acclaimed performance. We follow the thread The National Theatre let go of and present Stridsberg's second and next play, Medealand."

Medealand by Oslo International Theatre was presented with a permit from the theatre publisher Colombine Teaterförlag on behalf of Sara Stridsberg.

SOURCES:

E-mail from Oslo International Theatre 24.04.2015.

Oslo International Theatre, oslointernasjonaleteater.com, 14.09.2012, http://oslointernasjonaleteater.com/2011/03/19/medealand-av-sara-stridsberg/