Swiss director Milo Rau – described by critics as the “most influential” (Die Zeit), “most awarded” (Le Soir), “most controversial” (la Repubblica) and “most ambitious” (The Guardian) of our time – returns to the LAC with his new work, inspired by Euripides' Medea and a real court case in Belgium, giving voice to children who reflect on separation, injustice and the eternal power of tragedy.

After Five Easy Pieces, presented in the 2017/18 season and focusing on the Dutroux case, Milo Rau offers a new perspective on the role of children in theatre. The starting point is a real crime story: a mother, overcome by despair, attempts to take the lives of her children and then her own, but survives.
This modern tragedy is intertwined with the classic story of Medea, perhaps the darkest tale of relational conflict and infanticide at the origins of Western culture.
Repeating the scenes over and over again, playing ancient and modern characters, adults and children, and dissecting violence with disturbing re-enactments, a cast of six young non-professional actors confronts the relentless fate of tragedy and reflects on family history, first love, first encounters with death, desires for the future and fears about the end of the world that we all share.
Medea's Children is a small story of theatre in which children, condemned to silence in classical tragedies, finally speak out.