31 October - 30 November

MEDEA

a new translation of Euripides by

Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish

Nurse SANDRA VOE
Tutor AKIM MOGAJI
Medea CLAIRE BENEDICT
Chorus of Women SUSAN ADERIN, BOLA AIYEOLA, LOLITA
CHAKRABARTI, FRANCHINE MULROONEY,
MARY ELLEN RAY, JOY RICHARDSON, FAY RIPLEY, SADIE SHIMMIN
Creon JOHN SOUTHWORTH
Jason RAY JEWERS
Aigeus PETER BADEJO
Medea's Children WAYNE JOHNSON and KAZ JOHNSON or CURTIS SMITH and SEAN STEPHENSON

Director PHYLLIDA LLOYD
Designer ANTHONY WARD
Choreographer PETER BADEJO
Composer GARY YERSHON
Lighting RICK FISHER
Sound PHILIP CLIFFORD

'Phyllida Lloyd's production of Euripides' gutsy tragedy lives up to expectations as a sensationally spectacular piece of physical theatre sustaining a vertiginous emotional altitude...Visually it's bewitching...Claire Benedict's performance as Medea is stunning...There are vivid characterisations, too, from Peter Badejo as Aigeus, Akim Mogaji as the tutor, and Sandra Voe as the nurse and a hypnotic intensity to the chorus of black-robed women. Anthony Ward's setting, on an elemental circle of inter-locking stone slabs, is superb.'

Robin Thornber The Guardian