The Medead (2012)
A decade in the making, The Medead ranges across history and the subconscious to excavate the multi-viewpoint reverberations of the myth of Medea – of east and west, of a woman’s power – to “sing a skin of language over the invisible."
Of The Medead, Claire MacDonald writes, "Templeton takes the most basic and ubiquitous of forms, the journey story, and extracts its governing drives. Like a previous generation of radical feminist spinners of word-forms, Templeton takes a stand for the primacy of language in shaping the world of experience and in constructing female subjectivity–over a lifetime. In her hands it achives that most unlikely of qualities, delicacy and even humor."
A six-part play in which eight actresses play the role of Medea, The Medead's premiere was held at Roulette in Brooklyn on December 14, 2012, featuring music by Samita Sinha.
