Medea

I came across Beard’s Women and Power: A Manifesto whilst desperately searching for secondary reading for my dissertation. This critical essay does what it says on the tin, it discusses the relationship between women and power from the Ancient Romans and Greeks to today. An excellent and accessible piece...

Based on the original Greek tragedy by Euripides, Medea tells the blood-soaked tale of the eponymous princess of Colchis, who marries the hero Jason following their successful capture of the mythical Golden Fleece. However, things turn ugly when Jason leaves Medea for Creusa, daughter of King Creon of Corinth....

Medea is a Greek tragedy written by Euripides and first performed in 431 BC, therefore it has a long legacy of performances and adaptations. With this performance in particular, the director (Emma Fearon) and producer (Emily Wong) have chosen to alter the tragic Greek conventions in some ways to...