The Chan Centre for Performing Arts

"We read about domestic tragedy every day. But nothing tops a play nearly 2500 years old which summarises all our fears and sorrow." - Daily Mail

Greek tragedy's most spectacularly vengeful woman has rematerialized in a pithy, witty and elegant 90-minute translation. Medea is the notorious mother who, in a fury of sexual jealousy, murders her children as revenge for her husband's infidelity.

In this savage tragedy about love, entitlement, lust and retribution, Euripides gives us a nearer view of passionate emotion, both in its purest forms and in the wildest aberrations by which men are controlled, or troubled, or destroyed.