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"Medea Redux"
« Thread Started on Oct 9, 2008, 6:47am »
Bash: Latter-Day Plays is a collection of three dark one act plays written by Neil LaBute.



"Medea Redux" A middle-aged woman sits alone at a table, describing a sexual relationship she had, at thirteen, with her junior high school English teacher. Later as she struggles, young, pregnant and alone, she idealizes and protects her former lover, refusing to judge him. Eventually she takes her young child to meet his father, who is married and has no children. The woman then describes how she murdered her son, without giving the audience any clear motive for the act, but presumably because she knows that it will cause her former teacher pain even though it is clear from her descriptions that she also dearly loves her child.
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Re: "Medea Redux"
« Reply #1 on Oct 9, 2008, 6:57pm »
I have included this clip not only to further showcase the very talented Miss Flockhart, but because both her appearance here and this characterization remind me of the extraordinary young lady featured on my homepage at http://daurril.org. Particularly fond of beer and daytime game shows, living and dying in obscurity, that Kathy was for many years a remarkable friend to me.
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« Reply #2 on Oct 11, 2008, 7:23am »
My interest in Medea has at least one more facet. Fond for a while in my very young life (around 1948) of June Allyson, I was pleased to respond to what seemed to be an on-line opportunity to at least simulate conversation with her via her "Official" website. Caught up in her expressed disappointment at being left out of Driving Miss Daisy, I ventured to suggest that mounting her own production might not involve much overhead, citing at the time M Redux, and inviting her website people to watch one of its cablecasts.

Minutes after that recommended cablecast ended, the young hillbillies who saw it removed every trace of my correspondence from their website. When I chose to email my concern over that to (yes) Ojai and the site's remaining audience, "Official" publicly declared me to be both a threat to June and her enemy. Notwithstanding the very complimentary handwritten letter I received from Allyson herself, my response was to create what is now http://allyson.daurril.org/, which is at present first among her Wikipedia entry's non-"industrial" External References - ahead of "Official."

But you may note in whatever profile derives from all this, that I am indeed the worst enemy only of (per http://atb.daurril.org/) Non-Profits running Public Access stations.
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Re: "Medea Redux"
« Reply #3 on Oct 11, 2008, 6:26pm »
We are here....
& all love Calista.
I have seen "BASH" & think the clip you chose is an amazing display of her talent.
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Re: "Medea Redux"
« Reply #4 on Oct 16, 2008, 9:29am »
Wow! That was such a powerful performance. Its such a showcase of Calista's talent. The pain of the character was palpable. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: "Medea Redux"
« Reply #5 on Dec 16, 2008, 8:27pm »
i saw calista perform in this on stage about 7/8 years ago. i forget which year it was as it was soooooo long ago. it was in a little theatre called the canon i think. in LA. i sat front row. she was amazing. after i got her to sign my script i bought at the theatre. she was so lovely to meet in person. i think she should do more theatre. she was mesmerising to watch. there's another piece she was in in this play, where she plays a young college student in NY for the weekend.
i think the medea redux piece is incredibly dificult to play, but she had me chilled to the bone at the end. i couldn;t believe that was aly up there. such a transformation.
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Re: "Medea Redux"
« Reply #6 on Apr 26, 2009, 10:27am »
Wow, this woman is so amazing.....I think calista is the best actress of the world....I watch it and It gives me the heebie-jeebies....she is inimitable
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