Medea.
Entertainment February 16th, 2009
Our Mirvish subscription is winding down for the season. It’s been a great year of shows and the classic Greek tragedy, Medea, continued the season’s success.
The story is about how Medea, Jason’s first wife, exacts her revenge on him and his new wife. Greek mythos pulls no punches, and neither does Seana McKenna in the role of Medea. Simply awesome.
I think the producers feared that the audience would become lost as we tried to understand the mythology of the time and so we would not relate well to the story. They provided a lengthy written background to Jason and Medea’s history as well as a pre-show lecture. None of this was absolutely necessary, but was appreciated and did spur some extra emotional involvement from us.
