Pepperdine University Presents MEDEA at Smother's Theatre

Pepperdine University's Fine Arts Division will present Medea on Wednesday April 4 through Friday, April 6 at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, April 7 at 2 p.m. at the Malibu campus' Smothers Theatre.

Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for Pepperdine faculty and staff, and $10 for full-time Pepperdine students, and are available now by calling (310) 506-4522 or visiting arts.pepperdine.edu.

Medea is a wife, a mother, and an immigrant. When her husband abandons his family for a new life, she exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear. First staged at the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens, Greece, Medea has intrigued and terrified audiences for nearly 2,500 years. Ben Power's version of Euripides' tragedy premiered at the National Theatre, London, in July 2014. Pepperdine's production is directed by Professor of Theatre Bradley Griffin, and will feature an original musical score by Professor of Music N. Lincoln Hanks.

Griffin directs the all-student cast, which features C.J. Babcock, Sarah Barney, Nate Bartoshuk, Morris Chen, Will Craig, Sydney DeMaria, Mallory Erwin, Jackie Ferguson, Brit Hope, Peace Ikediuba, Isabel Klein, Kate Klimist, Clayton Mattingly, Audry McKee, Julia Pankow, George Preston, Madeleine Riddle, Katy Semple, and Isaiah Wright.

"The power of Medea lives on. It's one thing to read a Greek tragedy in a classroom setting; it's another thing entirely to experience that same story on stage. In an era when some new atrocity scrolls across our news feed every day, the students in this production have committed themselves to telling this harrowing story as a way of bearing witness to the pain, while also exposing our desperate need for a more just, equitable world. Even at 2,500 years old, this is a story for today," Griffin said.

About the Seaver College Fine Arts Division

The Seaver College Fine Arts Division offers students excellent training in the disciplines of studio art, art history, music, and theatre arts. A group of renowned faculty, who are revered in their fields as practicing scholars, artists and teachers, prepare students for careers in the arts and continued graduate study. With approximately 300 students in the division, the unique programs are designed to prepare and inspire students to develop critical thinking, nurture creativity, and create the highest level of art and scholarship.

$15 for adults, $12 for Pepperdine faculty and staff, $10 for full-time Pepperdine students

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