Medea Told By Heiner Müller

TEHRAN.(Iranart) - Theater director Nahid Haji-Mohammadi has on stage at Molavi Theater Hall the play “Medea”.

The piece is based on a play titled “Despoiled Shore Medea Material Landscape with Argonauts”, written by German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theaterdirector Heiner Müller (1929-1995), Tiwall.com reported.

In Greek mythology, Medea was a sorceress, daughter of Aeetes (king of Colchis) who helped Jason to obtain the golden fleece and then married him. When Jason deserted her for Creusa, the daughter of King Creon of Corinth, she took revenge by killing Creon, Creusa, and her own children, and fled to Athens.

source: FINANCIAL TRIBUNE