Milo Rau: Medea's Children

A group of children walks onstage and begins to tell a story adults would rather not hear. Drawing on both a real criminal case and the ancient myth of Medea, the mother who murdered her own children, Milo Rau hands his tragedy to the young. They narrate it, reenact it, and stand as its witnesses, turning one of theater’s oldest horrors over in their hands and asking what any of it looks like from where they stand. Rau is among the most provocative directors alive, and Medea’s Children may be his most disarming work: intimate and epic at once, cruel and lucid and unexpectedly tender. It hands the story to the ones who inherit its consequences and lets them decide what to make of it.