The ancient Greek play Medea has enraptured readers, actors, and audience members for nearly 2,500 years. The classical playwright Euripides crafted a sharp-minded female character named Medea who ...
Some dramatic texts do not age well. They speak to a particular time and place of creation, with themes that might not reverberate with modern audiences. Other texts, however, rightfully become ...
The name Medea has been tied to darkness, murder, witchcraft and revenge for as long as her story has been told by ancient poets and playwrights like Euripides and Apollonios of Rhodes. A talented ...
A chorus of veiled women translates intangible concepts into a haunting soundscape for director Sylvia Blush’s rendition of “Medea.” The play, which opens at UCLA’s Little Theater on Friday and runs ...
From the lofty parapet of Mount Olympus to the tortured currents of the River Styx, the gods have no fury like a woman scorned. None, at least, like the woman in “Medea,” directed by Celeste Cahn ’15 ...
Don’t let the costumes fool you — this ain’t no toga party. This month, students at the Greek School of Plato in Bath Beach will be donning the ultimate party gear for a much nobler purpose — a ...