![]() ![]() Īngelica del Valle plays Medea, highlighting the emotions behind the battle to keep her son. According to the Brown Daily Herald Review, "Though a recreation of a Greek tragedy, the play includes both humorous scenes such as a girls’ night on the town in a lesbian dance club where the ladies line-dance to a disco remix of “The Hustle” and intense scenes like Medea mourning her son in the confines of a psychiatric hospital, only to be mocked by her doctors" (Barnes). The Brown University Production of The Hungry Woman took place at the Leeds Theater in April 2006. The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea has had few productions between the first 1995 production directed by Tony Kelly and the 2006 production at the Leeds Theater at Brown University. īy 2006 the play had received several full productions. Chihuateo - Four women who had died in childbirth.Pareles describes Mama Sal as "the kind cynic who, despite her love for Chac-Mool and Medea, helps Luna leave Medea and Medea carry out her insane plan". Mama Sal - A grandmother who is a lesbian.Pareles states that in the play Luna is "perhaps the most sympathetic character". Eschen and Pareles both describe her as "butch". Eschen states that Luna is not apologetic about her sexuality, and while Media is in despair, Luna gives "the voice of reason". She had taught Chac-Mool about history and heritage, including how to plant corn. Luna - Medea's girlfriend, a sculptor.Nicole Eschen of the Theatre Journal wrote that at the end, "Chac-Mool reappears, possibly as a ghost or hallucination, to absolve and cradle Medea as she kills herself." At one point Medea kills Chac-Mool to prevent him from going into Aztlán. Melissa Pareles of the Lambda Book Report describes him as "rebellious but trusting". Chac-Mool is named after a Toltec messenger, Chacmool. He wants to marry an Apache virgin girl and thus is divorcing Medea. Jasón - Medea's husband, a biracial man who now lives in Aztlán, where he holds an important position. ![]() Her character is based on Euripides' Medea. She is Luna's lover, Jasón's wife, and mother to teenage son, Chac-Mool. Medea - The main character, a former revolutionary who was forced into exile.Medea's husband Jasón wants to divorce Medea and take her Chac-Mool with him back to Aztlán, where Jasón holds an important place in society. Medea, her son Chac-Mool, and her girlfriend live in the border area, around Phoenix, Arizona. Medea was exiled because of the patriarchical, anti-homosexual revolution in Aztlán. Aztlán combined elements of both cultures. The setting is a post-apocalyptic future on the border of the current United States and Aztlán, the separate nation carved out for Latinos and Hispanics as well as Native Americans. Patriarchies were established and homosexuals were forced to leave many of the areas because of politically conservative counter-revolutions. One territory is now African-American, one territory is now Native American, and another is now Latino and Hispanic. Plot Ī revolution in what was the United States had created separate territories for different racial groups. It includes aspects of Coatlicue, an Aztec goddess the play Medea by Euripides and La Llorona. The play, published by West End Press, was first written in 1995. The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea is a play by Cherríe Moraga.
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