Brava Presents
Rhodessa Jones Productions - The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women/HIV Circle
MAZE: What Do You Remember?
Thursday, March 13-16, 2025
Th-Sat @ 8pm
Sun @ 2pm
Brava Mainstage
“MAZE: What Do You Remember?” is a new work written and performed by RHODESSA JONES PRODUCTIONS – THE MEDEA PROJECT: THEATER FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN/HIV CIRCLE. “MAZE” explores stories of women surviving trauma using the ancient myth of the Minotaur, the Labyrinth (the Maze), and the heroine Ariadne who leads those “lost” in the maze through the guidance of a red thread to a place of safety, wellness and “home”.
In “MAZE: What Do You Remember?” The Medea Project confronts issues women face in surviving the trauma of violence, abandonment and abuse, and confront the mechanisms survivors use to cope with their traumatic pasts. In “MAZE”, we pose these questions: “How did you lose yourself?” “What did you lose?” “How do you find yourself again?” Funded by generous grants from the Rainin Foundation and the Zellerbach Family Fund, “MAZE: What Do You Remember?” is for mature audiences.
ABOUT rhodessa jones’ medea project
“MAZE: What Do You Remember?” is the second installment of the Medea Project’s “MAZE” series which began June 2024 with a presentation of “MAZE: Life on the Swerve” at the Ruth Williams Opera House in the Bayview Hunter’s Point. “…Life on the Swerve” dealt with the inequities in health care for women of color, especially Black women. It was funded by Ruth Williams Opera House and the Black on Both Sides project.
With over a half-century as an award-winning professional theater artist, actor, director and community activist Rhodessa Jones has embarked on establishing a new artistic company RHODESSA JONES PRODUCTIONS with Brava for Women in the Arts as her fiscal sponsor. Rhodessa is the founder and director of the award winning The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women/HIV Circle. Now in its 35th year, The Medea Project is a performance workshop designed to achieve personal and social transformation with incarcerated women and women living with HIV. Most recently, Rhodessa was the recipient of the California Arts Council’s Legacy Artist Award (through Youth Speaks), the San Francisco Arts Commission’s two-year Legacy Artist grant, and a PEW Foundation Artist Fellowship.
The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women/HIV Circle is building on its momentum as an arts program centered on women's health and wellness in this time where the agency of women over their bodies is at even greater risk. The Medea Project accepts the challenge to stand up as a cultural and artistic resource for women and girls to help them find and strengthen their voices to protect and preserve their personhood in the 21st century.