Drama

• Medea performed at the Olivier Theatre


  September 4th 2014
• Medea was shown on National Theatre Online
• Director

  Carrie Cracknell
• Playwright

  Ben Power
• Medea

  • A woman abandoned by her husband Jason of ten years to wed King Kreon's daughter Kreusa
  • Medea and her sons are banished from Corinth by Jason
  • In revenge, she murders Kreusa and Kreon with poisoned gifts delivered by her sons
  • Later, she murders her own sons to cause Jason distraught
• The play ends with Medea carrying the bodies of her sons off
• Theatre style

  • Greek
  • Naturalism with elements of abstract style, such as in the movement of the chorus