Medea voor een toeslagenherdenking
What if Medea weren’t a mythical Greek figure, but a mother caught in the Dutch childcare benefits scandal? Medea voor een toeslagenherdenking is a radical reinterpretation of Euripides’ classic, based on the real stories of those affected. Not a tragedy about revenge or victimhood—no, this Medea is about resilience, survival, and choosing love in extremely difficult times.
Run time tba
Genre Music theatre
Language Dutch
Premiere Thu 23 Apr
Medea voor een toeslagenherdenking
Jason and Medea are torn apart when the Tax Authority falsely accuses her of fraud. While Medea fights against a system that drives her to despair, Jason begins to doubt her innocence, and his love for her is put to a merciless test. In a desperate attempt to save them from a hopeless existence, Medea resolves to kill her children.
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The distance between them grows, and their trust crumbles. But when the truth finally comes to light—when the pain is spoken aloud and guilt is acknowledged—they find their way back to each other.
Angelo Ormskerk on Medea voor een toeslagenherdenking
“The victims of the childcare benefits scandal are, above all, survivors. What moves me in their stories is that, despite the many ways in which they were stripped of power, there were always others who continued to stand by them. People who believed them and helped them—long before the full impact of the scandal became widely known.”
Angelo Ormskerk (1992) is de recipient of the International Ibsen Fellowship.
Ormskerk was born in the Netherlands and raised in Amsterdam, graduated as a theatre director from the Academy of Theatre and Dance. Before pursuing his directing studies at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, he studied jazz and modern dance, among other disciplines, at the Institut de Formation Professionnelle Rick Odums in Paris.
Currently, he works with Toneelschuur Producties in Haarlem on new productions co-produced by Internationaal Theater Amsterdam. Additionally, he collaborates with Danstheater Aya on dance theatre performances for schools.
He often works with classical repertoire, adapting it through his perspective on the world. He draws inspiration from the cultural experiences that shaped his upbringing. Angelo commonly works interdisciplinarily and engages with issues surrounding (in)justice.
Credits
a production by Toneelschuur Producties
co-producer Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
directed by Angelo Ormskerk
inspired by Medea by Euripides
text by Maarten van Hinte
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featuring Urmie Plein, Raymi Sambo, Joe Sinduhije
musical director and keyboardist Jeremiah Owusu-Ansah
scenography and costume design Wael Qadriyeh
lighting design Casper Leemhuis
research consultant Fenneke Wekker
