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Hotel Medea

Southbank Centre, West End
From: Friday, 20th July 2012
To: Saturday, 11 August 2012

Our Review: starstarstarstar

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Our Review: starstarstarstar

Kieran Corcoran - 23 July 2012

Hotel Medea defies the vocabulary of a critic, and to some extent the critical mindset along with it - the sense of community and shared experience this six-hour production creates can make it hard to think objectively about.

This production's emphasis on thoroughgoing audience participation and group dynamics makes criticism feel even more of a betrayal, but while its emotionally varied, multi-sensory offerings are engaging, valuable, even revelatory, there remain areas of weakness.

What Hotel Medea does exceptionally well is to involve you in its action – we dance, sing, run and hide our way through a series of acts and vignettes retelling an updated version of the Greek myth of Jason and Medea. It moves through three major segments – a tense, tribal encounter which segues into the protagonists' ritualistic wedding, a lower-key and sinister look at Jason and Medea's crumbling marriage from all angles, and the harrowing denouement, replete wit...

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