Yukio Ninagawa's striking rendering of the classic play by Euripides done entirely in Japanese performed in both Japan and Greece at the famous Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens.

When her husband Jason marries a Corinthian princess, Medea retaliates by murdering those closest to him, including their two children.

Poor King Trode has been turned into a troll, his daughter Princess Medea into a horse and his subjects into brambles. His kingdom, Trodain, is frozen in time. The story begins as you, the hero (one ...

In Ben Powers’ poetic adaptation, Medea is as much an ordinary, if classy, housewife as she is a princess, and the play is here given a domestic setting in a cabin in a Scandinavian forest.