Medea / Jan Maertens

Summary

By theater maker Piet Arfeuille (Theater Malpertuis, Tielt, Belgium), Jan Maertens is invited to create the light design for a new Medea. For his version of Medea, Arfeuille will start off from Heiner Müller's Landscape with Argonauts, while directing 8 performers and 1 actrice in a "lively painting on movement and image". The set will be designed by Berlinde De Bruyckere. The performance is set to premiere in Tielt (Theater Malpertuis) on January 27th 2021 after which an extensive tour of the flemish CC's is foreseen. What follows is Maertens' diary of the working process focussing on the becoming of the light design and comments by his fellow reflecting light researchers.