A chorus of veiled women translates intangible concepts into a haunting soundscape for director Sylvia Blush’s rendition of “Medea.” The play, which opens at UCLA’s Little Theater on Friday and runs ...
It wasn't an immediate success. Not according to the judges at Athens' annual dramatic festival when "Medea" premiered in 431 B.C. Euripides received the third, or last, prize, losing out to Euphorion ...
Rachael Kohn: She was beautiful, she married the man she loved, and then, she killed their children! Hello, this is The Ark on ABC Radio National, with me, Rachael Kohn. Medea is a figure from ancient ...
With modern media’s growing offerings of female-centered retellings of classical tales, the ancient Greek myth of vengeful sorceress Medea may not seem so appealing. Medea, who takes revenge on her ...
Rachael Kohn: She was beautiful, she married the man she loved, and then, she killed their children! Hello, this is The Ark on ABC Radio National, with me, Rachael Kohn. Medea is a figure from ancient ...
It seems callous, even monstrous, to dub all of that "entertainment." Yet that's the only word that fits. Working from playwright Ben Powers' 2014 version of Euripides' Greek tragedy, director Jerry ...
Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, and Madeline Weinstein in Medea (2020), dir. Simon Stone (all images courtesy of BAM, photos by Richard Termine © 2020) In Greek myth ...
Jared Reed as Jason and Jennifer Summerfield as Medea in Hedgerow Theatre's production of "Medea." (Photo supplied by the production) Euripides lost the new-play festival in Greece 2,449 years ago – ...
Medea is now playing at the Cameri Theatre, in a modern adaptation by Shahar Pinkas, based on Euripides. The production ...
Some dramatic texts do not age well. They speak to a particular time and place of creation, with themes that might not reverberate with modern audiences. Other texts, however, rightfully become ...
The libretto for Cherubini's Medea was written by Francois Benoit Hoffman, and has roots in the classic play by Euripides. As the story begins, quite a lot of groundwork has already been laid. Jason, ...