Medea

Medea

The old songs will have to change. <BR> No more hymns to our faithlessness and deceit. <BR> Apollo, god of song, lord of the lyre, <BR> never passed on the flame of poetry to us. <BR> But if we had that voice, what songs <BR> we'd sing of men's failings, and their blame. History is made by women, just as much as men. <BR><BR> Medea has been betrayed. Her husband, Jason, has left her for a younger woman. He has forgotten all the promises he made and is even prepared to abandon their two sons. But Medea is not a woman to accept such disrespect passively. Strong-willed and fiercely intelligent, she turns her formidable energies to working out the greatest, and most horrifying, revenge possible. <BR> <BR> Euripides' devastating tragedy is shockingly modern in the sharp psychological exploration of the characters and the gripping interactions between them. Award-winning poet Robin Robertson has captured both the vitality of Euripides' drama and the beauty of his phrasing, reinvigorating this masterpiece for the twenty-first century.