A young woman is submerged in a hole in an empty field of dirt. Only the back of their head and shoulders is visible.

Homegrown Festival 2026

Made-a-Medea

Name: Made-a-Medea
Start: 2026-05-29T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-05-30T15:30:00+01:00

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Fri 29 - Sat 30 May 2026

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Daughter. Lover. Foreigner. Immigrant. Skilled worker. Mother. Traitor to her home country. Sinful revenger. Multi-outcast exile. Killer of kin. Murderer of her own child. Who decides what she is — and what she becomes?

In this radical rendition, Euripides’ Medea is reimagined through the lived experience of the immigrant woman’s body — a body that must constantly reshape itself to be loved, to be useful, to belong. As she claims, coaxes, seduces, persuades, and pleads, she sculpts herself anew, again and again, negotiating the exhausting demands placed upon her.

This is not a story of adaptation, but of construction — of exasperating negotiation, endless attempts to belong, and the act of survival.

Medea is not born. She is made.