Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

My name is Samuel Schwarz. Please excuse the delay this evening.

Contrary to the information in your program, the actor, Fabian Krüger, will not be performing tonight. For reasons that I don't feel like getting into at the moment.

But the show must go on, and I will attempt to play his role tonight.

In the year, 2000, I took on the assignment to adapt one of the greatest pieces of European television entertainment for the stage, namely, Lars von Trier's Medea. Now the project has found the way home, and we we will now show you the remake of the remake of this great work.

The exciting aspect of this work is that I was able to achieve a fast-moving, Twenty-First-Century pictorial representation of this typical 1980's, Tarkofsky-influenced material.

Our version, of course, will take place like the original movie, not in the hot greek antique atmosphere, no, it will take place in cold and foggy Denmark, here at the cosy ZENTROPA-Studio.

Using a wide array of verbal and pictorial tricks, for example this video-beam from SONY, which we use simultaneously as the only light source and the picture frame of the camera, I have created a unique and timeless event, which transports the audience.

In other words, for the sake of being discreet, we are about to present to you our unique and personal interpretation.

At any rate, it's up to you to decide for yourself.