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Euripides

January 2024

  • Toby Park in a toga, gesturing and laughing, next to Aitor Basauri in a cloak, standing on a boat with an oar, with mist on the stage and a picture of the moon in The Frogs

    The Frogs review – Spymonkey’s search for ancient comedy and catharsis

    The Aristophanes play is interwoven with the theatre company’s personal quest in a ramshackle show that loses its way
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    Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon review – uproarious am-dram in ancient Sicily

    This witty debut novel, set in 412BC, imagines a couple of locals drumming up a production of Medea with captured Athenian soldiers
  • Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez

    A funny thing happened on the way here: comedians get personal about their backstage dramas

    In their new shows, anarchic theatre company Spymonkey and sketch duo Max and Ivan place the spotlight on their own lives more than ever before

August 2023

  • Inner strength … Trojan Women.

    Trojan Women review – Greek tragedy beautifully interwoven with Korean tradition

    Ong Keng Sen’s high-octane production for the National Changgeuk Company of Korea is scintillating from start to finish

March 2023

  • Kate Fleetwood as Medea, in a production directed by Rupert Goold at the Almeida theatre, London, in 2015.

    Euripides persuades us that love is what makes us human

    Letter: We ruin, waste and trivialise human life by ignoring that, writes Michael Bulley

February 2023

  • David Michaels (Andy Roe) and Thomas Wheatley (Sir Martin Moore-Bick) in Grenfell: System Failure at the Playground theatre, London

    The week in theatre: Grenfell: System Failure; Medea; Trouble in Butetown – review

    Playground; @sohoplace; Donmar Warehouse, London
    Richard Norton-Taylor and Nicolas Kent’s second Grenfell drama is a shocking dissection of negligence; Sophie Okonedo breathes fire as Medea; and Diana Nneka Atuona brings wartime Cardiff to life

November 2022

  • Ben Duke’s Ruination.

    ‘What’s the least Christmassy thing I can think of?’ Ben Duke on his festive Ruination

    Lost Dog has a reputation for taking sideways looks at classic tales and taking them into unlikely spaces, but might an interrogation of the murderous Medea in the bowels of the Royal Opera House prove a step too far?

October 2022

  • ‘She has the visceral power’ … Sophie Okonedo.

    Sophie Okonedo to play Medea at new West End theatre

    The production, beginning next February, will be directed by Dominic Cooke for @sohoplace in London

August 2022

  • Adura Onashile as Medea with the chorus.

    Medea review – Adura Onashile exudes awesome authority in bloody tragedy

    Liz Lochhead’s Scots verse spits wit and venom as male power meets female determination with operatic intensity, in this National Theatre of Scotland staging

May 2022

  • Age of Rage.

    Age of Rage review – ancient Greek tragedy explodes into our times

    While the emotional complexities remain, Van Hove’s high-octane makeover featuring unrelenting pyrotechnics and riveting performances is a visual epic

April 2022

  • Terror and tragedy … Dafni Krazoudi in The Burnt City.

    Punchdrunk: The Burnt City review – spectacle eclipses story in siege of Troy epic

    This immersive retelling of Greek tragedies is stylish and atmospheric but lacks narrative momentum and its scattered scenes can be frustratingly arcane

February 2022

  • Sense and Sensibility

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    They often get as rough a ride from books as they do from the world, but some writers, from Jane Austen to Sue Townsend, have given lone parents authentic life beyond the cliches

November 2021

  • Shannon Hayes in The Seven Pomegranate Seeds at the Rose theatre.

    The Seven Pomegranate Seeds review – Euripides tied in knots

    Overly stylised theatrics mar this revival of Colin Teevan’s monologues featuring Medea, Phaedra and others from ancient tragedies

July 2019

  • Dominique Reymond and Solène Arbel in The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema, by Martin Crimp.

    The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema review – flesh-and-blood take on the Oedipus curse

    Martin Crimp’s version of Euripides’ Phoenician Women is sly and violent, while its sphinx’s riddles read like exam questions from hell

May 2019

  • A natural imperial quality ... Amanda Maud and Ruth D’Silva in Blueprint Medea

    Blueprint Medea review – Euripides explodes in modern London

  • Kate Fleetwood (Medea) in Medea by Euripides @ Almeida Theatre. Directed by Rupert Goold. (Opening 01-10-15) Tristram Kenton 09/15 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com medea almeida fleetwood belcher everett lamb mytton randle salinger rolfe smith

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March 2019

  • Marieke Heebink (Anna) in Medea by Simon Stone after Euripides and International Theater Amsterdam @ Barbican Theatre. Directed by Simon Stone. (Opening 06-03-19)

    Medea review – a funny, brutal and raw masterpiece

    Simon Stone’s smart and harrowing retelling of Euripides is performed by a flawless ensemble

May 2018

  • War of the worlds … Ong Keng Sen’s Trojan Women.

    Trojan Women: the Greek tragedy that became a queer Korean opera

    A bold new show retells the Euripides classic through traditional pansori, K-pop and the story of ‘comfort women’ in the second world war

July 2017

  • Kristin Scott Thomas in Sophocles’ Electra

    Found in translation: how women are making the classics their own

    Women have long been marginalised in the world of ancient texts, but female scholars and translators are finally having their say

May 2017

  • Medea at Bristol Old Vic

    Medea review – all-female cast excel as Euripides meets modern-day Maddy

    Writer Chino Odimba and director George Mann meld ancient and new in an admirable production with first-rate performances
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