Medea

Synopsis

Vulnerable outcaste, jilted lover and scheming sorceress. Without Medea's help, Jason would never have acquired the Golden Fleece, never have arrived safely back to claim his kingdom, never have had the success that followed, never have had his two beautiful sons. Such devotion surely deserves repayment.

Our Review:

24 February 2010

When marriages break up through the dalliance of a husband, tragedies often follow, with a resultant nightmare for the errant spouse, the wife killing their children and often herself.

Though this could be a modern tale, Euripides wrote such a heart-rending story 2,500 years ago.

In Northern Broadsides’ version by acclaimed poet Tom Paulin at the Liverpool Everyman, we see an extremely strong Medea in Nina Kristofferson. She is black, beautiful, and heroic. Nina is hardly ever off stage and she gives a mesmerizing performance. Her hurt is tangible, her anger and gall physical. She moves with grace, and her facial contortions tell a tale of guile and scheming.

For this woman, one of the strongest female Greek characters, has been truly provoked, not only by her husband Jason (Andrew Pollard), who has taken a second wife, a princess, but also by the father, King Creon (Barrie Rutter) who banishes her from the land. For a ‘foreign’ wife who has giv...

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