This summer Bump in the Night Theatre will produce their first show in Euripides’ Medea. This ancient story comes to life in this new bloody, magical adaptation of the Greek tragedy. Medea, a powerful ...
It’s a curious feature of Euripides’ great revenge tragedy Medea that in a story so intimately tied to a woman’s sense of isolation in a foreign land, the omnipresent Greek Chorus is a group of ...
Some characters in Greek myths shine with bright heroism. Others glow with quiet wisdom. Then there are characters like Medea who burn with such intense power that you never forget them. Medea is ...
A lot hinges here on the heavy-lifting done by Cooke’s lead cast: an unsurprisingly commanding Sophie Okonedo as the vengeance-drunk Medea and an agile Ben Daniels, who slips into and out of the ...
The Fairfax High School auditorium is empty, and authentic chain-link fence stretches from proscenium to proscenium. Tonight the audience sits on stage inside the dark, foreboding confines of an inner ...
Scorned and seething since 431 B.C.E., Medea has raged across the centuries as an empathetic emblem of the human consequence of paternalistic betrayal — by a man for whom a Golden Fleece was just not ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue Theatre will present "Medea," by Euripides, and translated by Ian Johnston, beginning Feb. 15 at the Nancy T. Hansen Theatre in Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing ...
“Medea: The Musical” had everything: A live, on-stage band striking chords; Lin-Manuel Miranda-style raps and melodies packed with witticisms; and a diverse cast taking center stage to produce a ...
A marriage betrayal ending in murder—a story that has shocked and unsettled audiences since it was first performed in 431 BCE—is coming to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Fine Arts Center’s ...
GARRISON — Davis McCallum, director of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, took a big risk this year: For the first time in its 37-year history, the festival will not present one of its namesake’s ...