I could get big headed here and say great minds think alike but the news is
heartening. The piece was a spontaneous response to a photograph of the
London production in The Independent that depicted Medea in a covering of
blood which seemed rather over the top and out came a poem after checking
out Euripidies in my old Penguin Classic. Interesting that it has appeared
as a monologue, I think the influence of re-reading the play must have crept
in there.
bw
James
>From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub: Medea And The Media
>Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 19:00:49 +0000
>
>Interesting, James. A modern analysis of Medea - its fashionable, Liz
>Lochhead just wrote a new translation, though she kept pretty much to the
>orginial; our friend the playwright John Cargill Thompson did lots of
>one-person plays taking the mickey out of the establishment view of this
>sort of story: taking a fresh, matter-of-fact look at what we have been
>told. This monologue sounds remarkably Cargillesque, and it sounds like a
>dramatic monologue (almost rather than a poem) although its length and
>focus
>are poem-like.
>bw Sally-ee.
>
> > So I killed the kids -
> > this is what you want to hear, isn't it?
> >
> > I killed them after Jason left me and our boys
> > for that bitch Glauce, King Creon's daughter.
> >
> > I'm told for love, but, come on, pull the other one,
> > we're all adults here, let's remember I'm not a Greek
> > and Corinth aspires to an Athenian sense of order.
> >
> > You don't want that detail though. Do you?
> > Explanation is not vbald enough tragedy
> > for a sound bite -
> > all you want is a picture of me
> > bathed in the blood of my sons
> > as I wail and hold their bodies in my arms.
> >
> > You are all quick to bray like a Greek chorus
> > in neat, pat cliche.
> > At least they were there to tell the truth,
> > be yiour interior conscience to argue with
> > and to help the story along.
> >
> > They weren't false friends either
> > and didn't invade your personal space
> > with their masks still on.
> >
> > Remember this though -
> > and you can check what Euripides says,
> > murdering my lovely sons
> > was not the first thing to enter my head.
> > Whatever you think it's not full of air -
> > and you weren't there.
> >
> > What? You don't understand,
> > either what I say or why I did it by my own hand?
> >
> > That's it. Interview's over.
> > Thanks for coming to the home of Aegeus, son of Pandion.
> >
> >
> > bw
> > James
> >
> >
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James
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