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Theatre review: Medea: Monster casts a spell on audience
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Medea St Bride's Centre ****
MEDEA could be an actress', director's and psychologist's dream
character. Passionate, emotional, terrifying and complex - her
husband Jason calls her "a beautiful monster". Carol Davidson is
utterly believable and compelling in the role of Medea, provoking
both horror and sympathy in the audience.
Jason abandons Medea to marry a younger royal bride. He tries to
justify his actions as being good for their children's status, Medea
accuses him of "wr...
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On Translating Medea
The Virginia Quarterly Review
; ... butchery that awaits her children. Medea Our long wait for palace news is over. One of Jason's servants sprints this way. Listen, he ... father, Creon, lie dead, victims of your poison. Medea Splendid news! Let me reward you with my undying friendship and protection ...
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Theatre: Fatal attraction in bed with Medea It's a story of power, glamour, betrayal and atrocity. On the eve of the West End opening of Deborah Warner's sensational version of Euripides, Fiona Shaw and Jonathan Cake tell Paul Taylor why this ancient Greek tragedy is so suitable for our celebrity-obsessed culture
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