Carnival Medea

The play presents Medea, a Grenadian obeah woman who seeks to punish her Tobagonian husband, Jason, for his betrayal of her. She has done everything in her considerable power to smooth his way, turning against her father and even killing her brother. For this she has been exiled from her homeland and estranged from her family. The tabanca (painful feeling of unrequited love, especially towards an ex) for this loss is as strong in its own way as her rage over Jason’s abandonment of her and their sons to marry a “red woman”, the “bourgeois” daughter of Trinidad’s Governor Creon. To punish the errant man, Medea plots to have the horner woman murdered. To the horror of the chorus and her children’s nanny, Medea also plots to murder her own sons.