Medea
Opening Night: December 10, 2002
Closing: February 22, 2003
Theater: Brooks Atkinson
Medea is Euripides’ disturbing and iconic tale of passion, pride and the blinding desire to exact revenge at any cost. When her husband Jason marries a Corinthian princess, Medea retaliates by murdering those closest to him, including their two children. The gripping tragedy of a woman scorned and the horrifying culmination of her fury, is brought into striking contemporary focus in Deborah Warner’s critically acclaimed production. Fiona Shaw stars.
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June 28, 2011
The Abbey Theater’s production of ”Medea” was performed in October at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of this season’s Next Wave Festival. Following are excerpts from Ben Brantley’s review, which appeared in The New York Times on Oct. 4; the full text is online at nytimes.com/theater. The play opened last night at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, 256 West 47th Street.
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