Award-winning late night interactive show Hotel Medea will transfer to the Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery from 21 July to 11 August 2012 (previews from 19 July), Whatsonstage.com can reveal.
Featuring a vibrant Brazilian party, a soundtrack by DJ Dolores, a participatory cabaret show, live video technology and steaming cups of hot chocolate, it “disintegrates barriers between performers and the audience, and together they create a frenzied maze of food, blood and dance before sharing breakfast at dawn”.
Hotel Medea, a collaboration between Brazilian company Zecora Ura and UK artist Jade Persis Maravala, will run as part of Southbank Centre’s Festival of the World with MasterCard.
The show takes place in three parts:
Part II – Drylands: a post-modern wasteland. Live documentary, hot chocolate and CCTV cameras add a contemporary perspective to Jason’s betrayal.
Written by Persis-Jade Maravala and the company based on Euripides’ original, Hotel Medea was recently awarded the Prix Ars Electronica Award for Hybrid Art (June 2011) and the Herald Angel Award at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011. It was first seen in London as part of LIFT in 2010.
The cast comprises: Jorge Lopes Ramos, Persis-Jade Maravala, Lisa Lapidge, Carlos Rezende, Flávio Rabelo, Raquel Aguilera, James Turpin, Thelma Sharma, Urias de Oliveira, Will Dickie, Fabiola Santana, Giovana Lo Conte, Abigail Butler, Marnie Nash, Hayley Hill, Eris Maximiniano and Silvia Almeida.