Fasten your seatbelts for this contemporary version of the Greek classic.
is fraught with the devastating kind of stuff we expect from an ancient Greek tragedy. In the play Medea’s husband Jason has abandoned her and their two sons to be with Glauce, King Creon’s daughter. Utterly ravaged and seeing no options or solution for her pain, Medea takes matters into her own hands and kills her two sons.When writer/director Simon Stone set out to create a new adaptation of Medea, he wanted to make it something completely relatable and updated.
The second shock of the production is even more extreme. “Once you get used to watching a contemporary play, you let go of whatever relationship you might have to the original,” explains Stone. And then presto, everything changes. “You discover this actually IS that play,” says Stone. “This can happen to people in the world that we live in.”
In fact, this Medea is partially based a true story of a Kansas City physician who was charged with setting fire to her home which killed two of her three children. She was also convicted of attempted murder for attempting to poison her cheating husband. In Stone’s play Anna, , is a brilliant research scientist, who spent years making her fellow research colleague/ husband, Lucas, truly shine. She ends up sacrificing her own success for his. When she discovers Lucas’ infidelity, she completely unravels. And then it dawns on us that we’re entangled in Euripides’territory. “It’s easier to watch a show when you can distance yourself from it all. You think, this is not me. It’s old witches, kings and warriors,” says Stone.
As Cannavale observes this Medea ends up so relatable. “We go on a journey with Anna and see a woman who is desperately trying NOT to lose her mind. That's is different than watching somebody lose their mind. When you see somebody fighting not to lose their mind nor fall prey to their darkest thoughts, it’s something we can relate to,” says the actor. “You sit in a theater and think, gosh, I remember going through some dark times. It's a struggle.
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