Medea
- By:
- Euripedes, adapted by Tom Paulin
- Management:
- Northern Broadsides
- Cast:
- Nina Kristofferson, Kulvinder Ghir, Cleo Sylvestre, Michelle Hardwick, Heather Phoenix, Fine Time Fontayne, Barrie Rutter
- Director:
- Barrie Rutter
- Design:
- Emma Wee
- Lighting:
- Julie Washington
- Musical direction:
- Barbara Hockaday, who also peforms
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Search Amazon for Medea items Search for tickets at TicketmasterNorthern Broadsides specialises in direct, uncluttered productions of classical and Shakespearean drama. This new version of Medea, scripted by one of the UK's most prominent poets, certainly lives up to the company's manifesto - it is considerably more accessible than much Greek tragedy. However, at times, the colloquial touches go too far in disrupting the grandeur that might help us make sense of Euripides' extremes. The thinking behind the Chorus' folksy harmonica ditties is understandable, but elsewhere, needless slanginess (the routine replacement of "children" with "kids", for example) and expletives sound an odd note amidst the more poetic diction, risking bathos where there might have otherwise been awe or horror...
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