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THE HUNGRY WOMAN: A MEXICAN MEDEA
by Cherríe Moraga
Winthrop University
In The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea, playwright Cherríe Moraga uses mythology and intimate realism to stage the contentious spaces of cultural and sexual identity in a re-imagined, post-apocalyptic USAmerica. Drawing from the Greek Medea and the Mexican myth of La Llorona, Moraga portrays a woman gone mad between her longing for another woman and for the indigenous nation which is denied her. The play shifts from Medea, in the present in the psychiatric ward of a prison, to events in the past that lead to her incarceration. She has, as the Medea before her, sacrificed her own child. Through this play, set in the “near future of an imagined past, dreamed only in the Chicana imagination”, Moraga combines cultural myth and theatre history to illuminate an embattled state of belonging and what we must sacrifice for it.
Directed by Laura Dougherty
Set Design: Biff Edge
Light Design: Kyle Amick
Costume Design: Janet Gray
Sound Design: Leah Smith
Choreography: Erica Ocegueda
Projection Design: Syndey Moore & Sarah Gunter
Photo Credit: Leah Smith