“Medea Yates,” an
explosive one-act play written and directed by senior Phillip J.M.
Chorba, will be staged Friday and Saturday, March 11 and 12, at 8 p.m., and
Sunday, March 13, at 2 p.m. in Yulman Theater.
Performances are free and open to the public.
The play spins a modern interpretation of the Medea myth,
a Greek tragedy by Euripides, set in modern day Texas. Chorba crosses the myth with elements
from the highly publicized murder case of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother convicted in 2002 of drowning
her five children in a bathtub.
Chorba calls his one act play “a classical tragedy infused
with modern events.”
The cast includes students Carly Hirschberg, Cat Howlett,
Charles Holiday, Andrew Burke and Cooper Braun-Enos. The play uses video clips
to emphasize themes and plotlines. The background music is by Tom Waits.
For more information, contact the Yulman Theater box
office at (518) 388-6545 or visit http://www.union.edu/theatre/current_season/.