Issue date: 11/14/08 Section: The Verge

Senior theater major Tim Lindeman performs as Creon in the theater deptartment's rendition of "Medea" by Euripides on Tuesday evening in the Black Box of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. (Robbie Wroblewski/The Daily Eastern News)

The first performance in the Black Box Theater at Doudna will be this coming week.

The Theater Arts Department will perform "Medea" beginning this weekend and into early next week.

This play is the second production this year for the department and Jean Wolski, director of the production, seems to be excited for it.

Wolski has been teaching theater for 30 years and has directed more than 50 plays, so while this is not anything new thing for her, she is still excited to be at Doudna.

"It is wonderful to be back in the center of campus activity," Wolski said.

Being back on campus is exciting to the whole department and it adds new questions to how to make things run also.

"The space itself is wonderful to work in, and since this is the first show in the Black Box, we're experimenting with what we can do, particularly with sound and lights," Wolski said.

The original show of Medea took place in 431 B.C.

"But many of the issues are still prevalent today," Wolski added.

The play has been performed and adapted for more than 2,000 years and audiences everywhere are still able to relate.

This is a Greek tragedy with the ever-relevant problem of the struggle of a woman in a "man's world"

Medea, the lead woman, being played by Bailey Murphy, has been betrayed by her husband and her country and must rely on her own strength to get herself through this struggling time without political power or leverage.

Wolski hopes the students and audience members are able to come see the play and keep an open mind to "experience the anguish that characters suffer, but not judge them so harshly."

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