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Hotel Medea Trilogy from Midnight to Dawn

Presented at the Hayward Gallery for four weeks during the London2012 Olympics, performed in Rio de Janeiro, Edinburgh and London, Hotel Medea is an immersive theatrical event that takes place from midnight to dawn and is the result of a long-term collaboration between theatre makers, researchers, musicians and new-media artists. The event was developed over a period of six years between Brazil and the UK and integrates AV installations, participatory rituals, game design, live DJ and communication technology to create a framework wherein the audience is given opportunities - or in acting terminology ‘offers’ - to influence the narrative. Since its inception in 2008, the project has attracted funding from the Salisbury International Arts Festival (£10,000), C.P.C. Gargarullo Brazil (£20,000), Arts Council (£18,000), Awards for All (£19,900), the Brazilian Ministry of Culture (£7,000), OI Mobile Company Brazil (£85,000), Brazilian Embassy (£5,900), Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust (£17,000), LIFT Festival (£5,000), Southbank Centre (£25,000), GLAZ Digital Stages Festival (£5,000) and CAIXA Bank Brazil (£48,000).

Zecora Ura created a production at Shunt Vaults London Bridge (2008), Salisbury International Arts Festival (2008), Arcola Theatre (2009), London International Festival of Theatre LIFT (2008 and 2010), Oi Futuro Rio de Janeiro (2010), GLAZ Digital Stages Festival (2011), Summerhall Edinburgh (2011) and Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre (2012), CAIXA Cultural Centre (2012) performing a total of 27 weeks since its premiere.

Hotel Medea was the critic’s first choice at the Edinburgh 2011 Festival. The practice-based methodology is based on Persis-Jade Maravala’s intercultural performer training, which is based on Jerzy Grotowski’s research and has Asian and Eastern European roots. The training, rather than aiming at a performing style, is an on-going process of encounters, discoveries, and transformations that enable the performer to take more risks in self-expression.

www.hotelmedea.co.uk

www.vimeo.com/hotelmedea

TELEGRAPH

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/9420237/Hotel-Medea-Hayward-Gallery-Southbank-Centre-review.html

THE HERALD

http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/oedipus-pleasance-hotel-medea-summerhall-from-no-holds-barred-to-virtuosic-masterclass.14668041

THE LIST

http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/229069-hotel-medea-an-overnight-theatrical-experience/

WHATSONSTAGE

http://www.whatsonstage.com/reviews/theatre/london/E8831343005493/Hotel+Medea.html