Lakewood, CO 80214
by Euripides, translated by Alistair Eliot
Directed by Warren Sherrill
Featuring Karen Slack as Medea
January 15 - February 14, 2016
It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
"Medea" is based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BCE. Medea, a barbarian and the wife of Jason, finds her position in the Greek world threatened as Jason leaves her for a Greek princess of Corinth. Medea takes vengeance on Jason by killing Jason's new wife as well as her own children with him, after which she escapes to Athens to start a new life.
The show features multi-award winning actress Karen Slack as Medea and all-star cast members Drew Horwitz (Jason), Rick Yaconis (Creon), Mark Collins (Aegeus), C. Kelly Leo (Nurse), Jim Valone (Tutor), Drew Hirschboek (Messenger) and Maggy Stacy, Kelly Uhlenhopp, Lauren Bahlman (Women of Corinth).
Euripides was a voluminous writer, the number of his plays being variously stated at from seventy-five to ninety-two, including several satiric dramas. Of these nineteen have survived, with numerous fragments of others, though many of his best works have been lost and more have suffered from interpolations. He was the first one to introduce women on the stage, not as heroines but as they are in actual life. Yet he is often far from complimentary to the other sex, the result, probably, of his two unhappy marriages. - TheatreHistory.com
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