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In this urgent new adaptation after Euripides, Kathy McKean brings Medea startlingly close. In a space between myth and modernity, an outsider in Corinth watches her life rewritten: Jason trades the woman who saved him for power, and Creon offers exile as "mercy". With no chorus of citizens to hide behind, the audience becomes witness, jury, confidant-drawn into Medea's fierce intelligence, corrosive grief and incandescent rage.

McKean's language is contemporary, muscular and lyrical, honouring the epic scale of Greek tragedy while exposing its intimate damage: love as compulsion, humiliation as fuel, vengeance as a force that burns everyone it touches. Medea fights to reclaim her story, her children and the sovereignty of her own heart. Written for a small cast-Nurse, Tutor, Jason and Creon-it builds to a breathtaking, brutal reckoning: terrifying, exhilarating and impossible to forget. A bold, accessible classic for modern audiences.

Cast: 4 actors

Duration: 90 minutes

Book details

• Full title: Medea
• Author: Kathy McKean, Euripides
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88
• EAN: 9781919483207
• ISBN: 1919483209
• ID: 51149680
• Publisher: Salamander Street Ltd.
• Weight: 96 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 129 × 5 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. February 2026

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