Act I

Medea (Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet) spends the first act kissing her brother, who she's preparing to sacrifice to the gods. Jason (Petri Lindroos) and his argonauts arrive before she can do the deed. More kissing ensues. Jason gets jealous of Medea and her brother, and stabs the brother. Medea immediately falls in love with him. The argonauts rape and pillage the Medean tribe of dark skinned beauties, and Jason does Medea himself, which, of course, leads to her having his love child in act II.

The set for this act is a half tube that opens at the start with medea's tribe suspended by wires from the inside. they decend one after another in a way that reminded me of elevators going up and down the side of a building. I really expected them to start singing about the wares on the 3rd floor as they went past.

Act II

Jason is non-existant, and Medea spends the whole time on what looks like a giant rotating microwave platform. She's surrounded by a chorus of tater tots, actually men and women dressed in white, with white scull caps. perhaps they were marshmellows. It was hard to tell. Plus the whole thing is a greek story sung in german with french supertitles. I might have missed something in the multiple translations. [I can see the translator there on opening night banging his head against the chair in front of him saying repeatedly "they were *argonauts* not *Tater tots*"]

Act III

Things heat up, as we jump into the present, and Jason's penthouse apartment rolls downstage from where it was hiding far upstage behind the medea tribal headquarters in act I, and the microwave in act II. Jason's gay lover, a counter tenor hops out from the shower wearing less than Tiffany in the upcoming issue of Playboy, and tells jason that they'll be so happy together. He then puts on the wedding dress that medea kindly sent them. The dress immediately renders him insane (as if wearing a wedding dress and singing with your head voice won't do this naturally). The tater tots return demanding a slightly spicy gravy, without lumps, and hop out as medea returns to tell jason that he can go rot in hell with her brother, the spell is broken and the golden fleece lives on.