![]() Her convulsions of rage are well delivered by the shocking and oftentimes funny script. Her insights garner the ill-advised sympathy of the audience who experience Medea’s oppression and suffering acutely, even while recoiling from her psychological irrationality and murderous intent. But the portrayal of the volatile Medea (Rachael Stirling) as intelligent, witty, and even likeable provides a weighty emotional conflict. At first, terraced homes seem too small to contain Euripides’ explosive drama. ![]() In this modern Medea, the city of Corinth is swapped for an ordinary British street, the banality of which is juxtaposed against the play’s horrors. But today, this undiluted tragedy of love, hatred, and madness provides fertile ground for this powerful new adaptation by Mike Bartlett. ![]() ![]() Indeed, traditional audiences did not warm to Medea when it was first performed. Euripides was unique among the great Greek dramatists for showing sympathy to the subjugated, particularly women. ![]()
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