Libby Purves kindly invited me to review the National Theatre’s new version of Euripides’ Medea for her website, Theatrecat.com.
It is always exciting to have a new Medea, possibly the most controversial of all Euripides’ tragedies, documenting a crime still felt to be fundamentally shocking and unnatural: and Ben Power has given us a tense, profound and horrifying Medea which recalls Euripides’ original closely in mood and pace.