ABSTRACT
Postdramatic structure highlights the interruption and fragmentation of story and character and is rarely concerned with following along or even reinventing the structure of the narrative and its relationship to the past. The postdramatic proposes a theatre beyond representation, in which the limitations of representation are held in check by dramaturgies and performance practices that seek to present material rather than to posit a direct, representational relationship between the stage and the outside world. In The Medea 'Suspense' manifests itself in a focus on the present moment and its immediacy, both for the actors and the audience. It aims to keep the spectators uncertain, surprised and even anxious about the performance before them. Medea, an already subversive subject in the model of Greek tragedy, becomes in The Medea the material of a postdramatic performance: 'more presence than representation, more process than product, more manifestation than signification, more energetic impulse than information'.
