SEASON 15 ARCHIVE | November 2002

review | photos

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Medea

Adaptation by Liz Lochhead | Presented by The VORTEX Repertory Company

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Winner of Two B. Iden Payne Awards for 2002: Sound Design: Edmund Pantuliano & Blaine Indemaio; Ensemble Performance: Paula Gilbert, Wendy Goodwin, Regina Yunker, and Betsy McCann VORTEX presents the American premiere of this fresh, thought-provoking adaptation of Euripides’ Medea. Scottish playwright Liz Lochhead bites into the darkest recesses of the psyche to bring this classical tale a contemporary edge and a feminist gaze.

Liz Lochhead recently won the prestigious Scottish Saltire Society’s Book of the Year Award for this new lyrical adaptation of Medea. First produced at the Tramway Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland in 2000, Lochhead’s Medea has played extensively in Britain, and has toured to India and Canada.

Featuring

Medea/Chorus:
Paula Gilbert, Wendy Goodwin, Regina Yunker, and Betsy McCann

Stewart Johnson as JASON, Traci Laird as the NURSE, Steven Fay as KREON, Jennifer Blair as Glauke and Josh Meyer as the TUTOR. Zach Pettichord, Aaron Williams, and Brittany Williams as the CHILDREN OF MEDEA.

Directed by Lorella Loftus, Lighting Design by Jason Amato, Scenic Design by Ann Marie Gordon, Costume Design by Pam Fletcher Friday, Soundscapes by Edmund Pantuliano, Sound Design by Edmund Pantuliano & Blaine Indemaio

Critics had to say about Liz Lochhead’s adaptation:

"…stunning, brave, visionary, risky, ancient but new, cosmic yet agonizingly familiar …"
Scotsman

"…all-encompassing brilliance…most uplifting…despite its terrible subject matter."
Scottish Daily Mail

"…witty yet powerfully poetic new version…exciting and gripping…a magnificent Medea for the 21st century." The Daily Telegraph