In Medea Res: An ancient Greek Femme Fatale is the American theatre's passion of the moment.(Critical Essay)
American Theatre, April, 2002 by Wren, Celia
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> MOTHER MUST, AFTER ALL KNOW BEST--JUST TAKE A look at Medea. Twenty-five centuries after the playwright Euripides sent her packing off stage in a dragon-drawn chariot, the infamous child-slayer is wreaking domestic havoc on stages across America. So far in the 2001-2002 season, Milwaukee's Chamber Theatre, the Pittsburgh Public Theater and the Will Geer The atricum Botanicum, in Topanga, Calif., have all mounted translations of the Greek original; Theatre de la Jeune Lune's version runs in Minneapolis through April 21; Classical Theater of Harlem's production opens in New York this ...
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