Medea The Hippie, UAL, 2025

Watch here: https://youtu.be/SPCBkpMGPjc
Costume and Film by me
Starring Tanza Rae @bab1esblues
Crew: Rex Tans @the.dino.not.the.king
Text by Euripides, Translated by Ben Power, 2014
Course work for Unit 7, Costume for Theater and Screen, @wimbledonual @bacostumefortheatreandscreen
2025

This film is an interpretation of Medea, by Euripides, which I chose to set in the summer of 1970, at the Isle of Wight Festival in the UK, during the Hippie and Psychedelic movement. I interpreted the text through a feminist lens, emphasizing themes of male privilege and the subjugation of women’s bodies. Medea’s lack of agency around her childbirth, and her deep sense of betrayal by Jason and society, causes her to choose heart wrenching revenge. This is a story of feminine rage in which the patriarchy is the true evil.