Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Let’s face it, Greek tragedy is often earnest, obscure or boring. Not this Medea

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Terribly, terribly English: Helen McCrory as Medea [Richard Hubert Smith] 
issue 02 August 2014

Carrie Cracknell’s new version of Medea strikes with overwhelming and rather puzzling force. The royal palace has been done up to resemble a clapped-out Spanish villa that seems to date from about 1983 if the kennel-sized TV set is anything to go by. (Weren’t TVs massive then? And always brown.)

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