Tatort Medea

Crime time is prime time. A case that has never really been solved: two children were murdered and there is one prime suspect, Medea, the children's mother. In a cinematic-theatrical setting, between the interrogation room and the coffee kitchen, it is not ordinary detectives who investigate the crime scene in Medea, but greats from the history of art and literature: from Euripides to Elfriede Jelinek, from Christa Wolf to Lars von Trier. Their statements contradict each other, their theories often diverge widely – but they are all searching for the truth behind the child murder. Like every crime scene, this one is based on gathering evidence, questioning witnesses, narrowing down the circle of suspects and investigating the motive for the crime. It is a search for clues based on a multitude of concepts, productions, constellations and conflicts in the Medea material throughout art history, which reveals more about the investigators than about the character of Medea herself.

The Viennese theatre collective God's Entertainment has been working since 2006 in varying line-ups in the fields of performance, happenings, visual art and sound, exploring new forms of performance through a combination of live acts and installation elements. Their actions, which address the social and political issues of our time, usually take place outside traditional theatre spaces and in interaction with the audience. They manipulate and seduce the audience wherever possible. The fact that not every audience member can always take everything in is deliberately accepted: impressions, images, music and video overlap to create impressive and emotionally dense theatre experiences.

By and with God's Entertainment