Madeleine Lobb

This work is a model set for the play Black Medea by Wesley Enoch, focusing on the themes of destruction and inevitability in the piece. Black Medea is based on the ancient Greek play Medea by Euripides, from a modern indigenous Australian viewpoint.

The set is a continuous space, a snapshot moment of Medea burning her house down around the body of her child on a collapsed table. The circle of scorched wood in the center of the space creates a black void, sucking the furniture into unusable space that can only seat one. The chairs circling the space are intended to seat the audience bringing them into the performance within the artificial boundaries of the kitchen the play is set in. The lit images from audience's perspective demonstrate the cold loneliness as Medea begs her husband to love her and harsh danger as the child is led to his doom by the chorus. These dramatic choices in set and lighting are intended to echo the destruction experienced in the world of Medea and her family, as an inescapable loop of fate.