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Sypnosis

A foreigner from an ancient civilization, Medea becomes the perpetual outsider in a city defined by self-proclaimed civility and rule of law. When her husband deserts her to marry the daughter of the city’s Premiere, she is left utterly displaced. Facing imminent exile with nothing save the skin on her back, she redirects her anguish into vengeance, punishes her enemies and horrifies the populace by spilling the blood of her own children on their very ground.

One of the most fascinating mythological figures of all time, Medea has come to be a symbol for the marginalized in almost every religious and cultural context. Ever resonant, Medea’s myth reverberates from the fringes where the alarming cries of the oppressed warn of the shattering consequences of their defiance.

Siti Khalijah Zainal takes on the towering task of inspiring both fear and awe as Medea. With a magnetic cast of seven, CAKE’s creation of Medea materializes at the intersection of myth and contemporary turbulence, and breaks bread with long time collaborators Brian Gothong Tan, Philip Tan, Andy Lim and in-house design collective neontights in Cake’s third re-imagined classic, after Ophelia and Electra.