In 2014, the National Theatre presented Euripides' Greek tragedy MEDEA, in a new version by Ben Power, now streaming on ...

The Athenian poet Euripides was the last of the three great Greek tragedians (after Aeschylus and Sophocles) and also the least successful. Greek tragedies were performed competitively at religious ...

It wasn't an immediate success. Not according to the judges at Athens' annual dramatic festival when "Medea" premiered in 431 B.C. Euripides received the third, or last, prize, losing out to Euphorion ...

As her version of Euripides’ play opens, the author discusses her turn to drama, being bullied at school and the damage done to children when parents split up When the curtain goes up on Rachel Cusk’s ...

More than any part I've played, Medea engages the mind, body and soul. You've got an hour and a half to get an audience to believe that this woman is going to kill her children. And on top of that: ...

Before the opening line of Euripides' play is ever uttered on stage, director Ann Aiko Bergeron utterly convinced the audience on opening night at UMD's Dudley Experimental Theatre that "Medea" is a ...

If you don’t know much about Greek mythology, “Medea” is Euripides’ dramatization of the ancient story of the sorceress daughter of a barbarian king whose arrogant husband leaves her for another woman ...

NEW YORK — For an actress with dreams of a Tony award, a tragedy from 431 BC might just provide the winning role she’s been looking for. “Medea,” Euripides’ proto-feminist potboiler about a woman who ...

EURIPIDES first “ received a chorus ” — that is, was chosen as one of three contending poets, each of whom was to present a trio of dramas at the festival of Dionysos — in 455 R. c. His literary ...