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Tag Archives: Jason

Magic in its modernism: Rachel Cusk’s marvellous new Medea for the Almeida GREEKS season

“I can unmake you the same way I made you. I write the story, remember?” Rachel Cusk’s brilliant vision of Euripides’ Medea for the Almeida transforms the barbarian witch into…

October 1, 2015 in Greek Tragedy.

Desire, deception, and death: Birtwistle’s The Corridor and The Cure

The most interesting thing about The Corridor, in classical terms, is the moment, and mood, that David Harsent (librettist) and Harrison Birtwistle (composer) have chosen to dramatise. So many treatments…

June 17, 2015 in New writing, Opera.

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