Medea (2000 - 2002)

Original id: 
3556
Start date: 
17 March 2000
End date: 
23 February 2002
Degree of relationship to ancient play: 
Adaptation
Production notes: 
Three plays were given as part of a series entitled The Greeks: Sophocles' Electra (ID 5809); Oedipus (ID 5808); and Medea (ID 3556).
Media of production: 
Stage-play
Languages: 
English
Companies:
Ancient works:

Information related to this production

Script Author(s)
Medea Euripides
Medea Liz Lochhead
Person Role Notes
Maureen Beattie Actor Medea
Duncan Duff Actor Jason, in the 2001 productions
Stephen Hogan Actor Jason, in the RNT Platform
Graham McLaren Director
Bruce White Actor Jason, in the Tramway performances
Venue Festival Dates Notes
Old Fruitmarket (Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland) 17 March, 2000 the production previewed here
National Theatre (NT), Royal National Theatre (RNT) (London, Greater London, England) 2 February, 2001 a reading in the RNT Platform series, held in the Cottesloe Theatre
Tramway (Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland) 10 October, 2000 to 13 October, 2000
Assembly Rooms (Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland) Edinburgh International Festival & Festival Fringe (2001) 5 August, 2001 to 24 August, 2001
Homi Bhabha Auditorium (Bombay, State of Mahārāshtra, India) 21 February, 2002 to 23 February, 2002
Source Format Location if held at the APGRD Pagination
A thoroughly modern Medea Article archive
Medea by way of music hall Article archive
Theatre Babel's Medea: After Euripides Book library
Medea, Glasgow Newspaper cutting archive
Medea by Liz Lochhead, after the play by Euripides Programme archive
Forthcoming platforms Listing archive
Theatre Babel's Medea Programme archive
Medea in Performance, 1500-2000 Book library 29, 273
Medea: Theatre Babel Print-out archive
Theatre Babel - Medea by Liz Lochhead Print-out archive
Modern Medea at the Fringe Print-out archive
A magnificent Medea for the 21st century Newspaper cutting archive
Edinburgh pick of the day: Medea Newspaper cutting archive
Plays International. Vol.16.12 (September / October 2001) Journal library 24
Medea Print-out archive
Plays International. Vol.16.9 (June / July 2001) Journal library 27
Medea Becomes Politically Correct Photocopy archive 281
Reception Studies Book library 80n14
Plays International. Vol.19.1 (October/November 2003) Journal library 25
Sunday Times Review - Oedipus/Electra/Medea Print-out archive
The Guide review - Medea Newspaper cutting archive
Indepedent Review - Greeks (Oedipus, Medea, Electra) Photocopy archive
Medea - DVD with extracts from Theatre Babel Medea DVD archive
Sunday Times Review - Oedipus/Electra/Medea Newspaper archive
Death on the slab - The Herald Website archive
Glasgow theatre groups take Festival by storm - The Scotsman Website archive
Athens in the North - Scotland on Sunday Website archive
Resistance and protest stage a comeback in Edinburgh - The Guardian Website archive
A Thoroughly Modern Medea - Edinburgh Evening News Website archive
Resistance and protest stage a comeback in Edinburgh - The Guardian Newspaper archive

How to cite this production

Medea (2000 - 2002), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/3556 <25 April 2024>