Thesis Chapters by Marina Albertyn
Euripides’s Medea has been staged a number of times in the new South Africa. This study's purpose... more Euripides’s Medea has been staged a number of times in the new South Africa. This study's purpose is to provide a practical example of a rewritten Medea set in a contemporary Afrikaner community. The political climate and gender views employed in the Euripidean Medea are an- alysed and compared to that of the new text. The themes in the Euripidean Medea are analysed as well as possible themes in the Afrikaner community to provide the new text with contempo- rary social trends in the white Afrikaner community. The style of the Euripidean Medea is an- alysed and adapted in the new play to create a style that can be accommodated in contemporary South African theatre. Appropriating Medea in an Afrikaner community will hopefully provide future theatre-makers with a narrative of the practical process of appropriation from which more universal principles on the practice can be derived as the play has never been fully rewritten in Afrikaans to create an authentic play.
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Thesis Chapters by Marina Albertyn