For Medea has supernatural skills, and in the original ultimately becomes a dragon-chariot-riding demigod: a climax which might not fly in a production that has at least one foot in 2014… ...

The play ends like a brutal thunderclap as Medea escapes to Athens in a dragon-drawn chariot, flanked by the corpses of her sons, mocking Jason’s agony and revelling in her victory.

The Black Swamp Players are staging Aly Kantor’s “Murdering Medea,” Friday, June 20, and Saturday, June 21, at 7:30 p.m. and ...

Medea is merciless and vengeful, with a heart full of betrayal towards others and herself. She is the femme fatale of Corinth, her story ending with a bang and a chariot that carries her away into ...

In Euripides’ version of “Medea,” the bloody plot includes a scene featuring “a chariot drawn by dragons.” But Mouawad keeps his Medea simple. There is no furniture, there’s barely any ...

Medea, though, ends her play not beaten down but darkly triumphant. In the final scene of Euripides' tragedy, she turns up to taunt her defeated husband from a winged chariot suspended above the ...

Medea (Helen McCrory ), Jason (Danny Sapani) and their sons (Joel McDermott and Jude Pearce). Richard Hubert Smith/National Theatre. Not only are Medea’s actions psychologically realistic, but ...

Will there be a flaming garment, an airborn chariot littered with dead infants? Again, there are tricks up the sleeve which I won’t spoil. Medea’s virtues are bumpy, its artfulness seeming more ...

We know how the story ends, but then so did Euripides' first audience in Athens in 431 BC. Medea was already a familiar character of myth, a sorceress whose ungovernable passion for Jason led her to ...