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Medea review Carrie Cracknell's play is a tragic force to be reckoned with by Michael Billington

Olivier, LondonHelen McCrory excels in this modern-dress take on Euripides that is alive with complexity and psychological astutenessAfter her success wth Ibsen's A Doll's House, Carrie Cracknell now turns her directorial attention to an even more wronged heroine: Euripides's Medea, who avenges herself on Jason by murdering their two children. But the virtue of the production and Ben Power's new version is that they …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AM on July 22, 2014

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