Médée (Anouilh)

Médée is a tragedy written by French dramatist Jean Anouilh in 1946, and directed by André Barsacq at the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Paris on March 25, 1953.

Anouilh's text is inspired by the myth of Medea. The action is centred on a few characters : Medea, Jason, Creon, and Medea's nurse. The plays ends with Medea's death in the flames, with Jason preventing any help to be given to her.

The myth is updated, with Medea for instance living on a trailer-park. Moreover, Anouilh analyses with more depth male-female relationships

Works by Jean Anouilh

Plays	Y'avait un prisonnier Le Voyageur sans bagage Thieves' Carnival Eurydice Antigone Invitation to the Castle Ardèle ou la Marguerite Colombe The Waltz of the Toreadors The Lark Médée Humulus le muet Becket Dear Antoine: or, the Love That Failed Les Poissons rouges ou Mon père ce héros Chers zoiseaux

Films	Traveling Light

Medea

Family	Aeëtes (father) Chalciope (sister) Apsyrtus (brother) Jason (1st husband) Aegeus (2nd husband) Mermeros and Pheres (sons) Alcimenes and Tisander (sons) Medus (son) Thessalus (son)

Films	A Dream of Passion (1978) Medea (1969) Medea (1988) Médée (2001) Medea (2005) Medea Miracle (2007)

Operas	Médée (1693, Charpentier) Medea (1775, Benda) Médée (1797, Cherubini) Medea in Corinto (1813, Mayr) Medea (1843, Pacini) Medea (2010, Reimann)

Plays	Medea (431 BC) Médée (1946) The Hungry Woman (1995)

Ballets	Jason et Médée (1763) La hija de Cólquide (1944) Medea (1946)

Musicals	Medea, the Musical (1994) Marie Christine (1999)

Music	Medea's Dance of Vengeance (1956)

Art	Medea (painting) Jason and Medea (painting) Medea statue

Other depictions	Medea (character) "Medea Culpa"

Authority control	BNF: cb16565169j (data)

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