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Medea Euripides

Medea By Euripides

Medea by Euripides

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Summary

Euripides' classic story of the woman who murders her own children in revenge for her husband's infidelity, here given a distinctive Scots flavour by the poet and playwright Liz Lochhead.

Medea Summary

Medea by Euripides

'She's chucked out like an old coat that nae langer fits him...'

Medea and Jason, clinging together as refugees in Corinth, have struggled to bring up their beloved offspring in this alien and unsympathetic society. Now Jason has a plan to better integrate himself. Unfortunately, this involves abandoning his wife, the mother of his children...

Spurned, destitute, desperate, Medea exacts her terrible retribution.

Liz Lochhead's Scots-inflected version of Euripides' classic revenge tragedy was first performed by Theatre Babel in 2000 and won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award. It was revived by the National Theatre of Scotland as part of the 2022 Edinburgh International Festival, with Adura Onashile as Medea, directed by Michael Boyd.

Medea Reviews

'This outstanding work should firmly establish the Glasgow playwright as Scotland's greatest living dramatist... the finest piece I have seen on the Scottish stage this year'

* Scotland on Sunday *

'Liz Lochhead's stunning new version of Medea is the kind of interpretation - brave, visionary, risky - that blows a well-known text apart and reassembles it in a completely new light... ancient but new, cosmic yet agonisingly familiar'

* Scotsman *

'Some of the most exciting recent work on Greek drama in the English language'

* Sunday Times *

'Liz Lochhead's celebrated adaptation... a formidable, immersive experience'

* The Times *

'Awesome... Liz Lochhead's Scots verse spits wit and venom as male power meets female determination with operatic intensity'

* Guardian *

'Magnificent, thrilling... Lochhead's brilliant and scathing Scots-language version of Euripides' mighty text [has] a simmering and terrifying eloquence'

* Scotsman *

'A breathtaking interpretation of the Greek tragedy... the addition of snarling Scottish dialect works brilliantly, adding extra layers of menace and seduction to the shocking tragedy... Transfixing, bloody, and reeking of danger, with images that will linger in your mind for hours after ending'

* Time Out *

'Raw and brutal... Liz Lochhead's version seeks, like all good contemporary productions of Greek theatre, to trace how its universality can speak to us today'

* WhatsOnStage *

About Euripides

Euripides (c. 480-406 BC) was, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens. Liz Lochhead is a poet, playwright, performer and broadcaster. Her original stage plays include Thon Man Moliere, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Blood and Ice, Good Things and Perfect Days. Her many stage adaptations include Dracula, Moliere's Tartuffe, Miseryguts (based on Le Misanthrope) and Educating Agnes (based on L'Ecole des Femmes); as well as versions of Medea by Euripides (for which she won the Scottish Book of the Year Award in 2001), and Thebans (adapted mainly from Sophocles' Oedipus and Antigone). Her collections of poetry include Dreaming Frankenstein, The Colour of Black & White, A Choosing (Selected Poems), Fugitive Colours and True Confessions, a collection of monologues and theatre lyrics. She served a five-year term as Scotland's Makar, or National Poet, from 2011 till 2016, and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2015. She won the Sunday Herald Scottish Culture Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.

Additional information

GOR013282210
9781839041150
1839041153
Medea by Euripides
Euripides
NHB Classic Plays
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Nick Hern Books
2022-08-18
64
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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