Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Approaches perfection: Medea, @sohoplace, reviewed

Plus: an eccentric night of diplomatic knockabout starring Clive Anderson at Park Theatre

Sophie Okonedo is wonderfully glamorous as the damaged and dangerous princess Medea @sohoplace. Photo: Manuel Harlan 
issue 04 March 2023

Winner’s Curse is a hybrid drama by Dan Patterson and Daniel Taub which opens as a lecture by a fictional diplomat, Hugo Leitski (a dinner-jacketed Clive Anderson). Leitski offers to teach us the subtle art of negotiation. An expert diplomat, he explains, must convince each side that they’re the winners in the negotiation and that their opponents have lost.

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