Medea - Paperback
Medea - Paperback
Description
by Euripides (Author), Kathy McKean (Author)
In this urgent new adaptation after Euripides, Kathy McKean brings Medea startlingly close. In a space between myth and modernity, an outsider in Corinth watches her life rewritten: Jason trades the woman who saved him for power, and Creon offers exile as "mercy". With no chorus of citizens to hide behind, the audience becomes witness, jury, confidant-drawn into Medea's fierce intelligence, corrosive grief and incandescent rage.
McKean's language is contemporary, muscular and lyrical, honouring the epic scale of Greek tragedy while exposing its intimate damage: love as compulsion, humiliation as fuel, vengeance as a force that burns everyone it touches. Medea fights to reclaim her story, her children and the sovereignty of her own heart. Written for a small cast-Nurse, Tutor, Jason and Creon-it builds to a breathtaking, brutal reckoning: terrifying, exhilarating and impossible to forget. A bold, accessible classic for modern audiences.
Cast: 4 actors
Duration: 90 minutes
Author Biography
KATHY MCKEAN is a Scottish playwright whose work includes Getting Close, written as part of the National Theatre of Scotland's Scenes for Survival Project, The Present Tense and The Spark. McKean's adaptations of Medea and Hedda Gabler both won Best Production Awards at the CATS (2022 & 2025).
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