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Medea
Opens: 02/02/2010 Closes: 17/04/2010
UK tour
Tom Paulin's version of this Greek classic is charged with vitality. Medea, betrayed by a husband that she has sacrificed everything for, takes indiscriminative revenge. Even her children are persecuted. It merges the intensity of passion with that of despair and boasts one of the greatest female roles in drama.
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Scotsman“Kristofferson is a striking presence, graceful yet hellish in her wrath...” Rutter has simply pitched too many ideas at the staging and hoped they will coalesce. Affording civilised Corinth the flavour of a Yorkshire mill town is all well and good, but the chorus of gossipy housewives are too often sluggishly flat...
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The Stage“Not entirely sure whether it wants to be sincere or ironic...” At times, the colloquial touches go too far in disrupting the grandeur that might help us make sense of Euripides’ extremes. The thinking behind the Chorus’ folksy harmonica ditties is understandable, but elsewhere, needless slanginess...
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The Independent“Youthful and engagingly direct...” Paulin's language is capable of taking bitter lyrical flight, as when the wounded, dangerous atmosphere generated by Medea is evoked with the phrase: "the air around her hurts"...
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The Telegraph“A crying shame...” Rutter and co kill the poignancy by indulging in the sort of free-style doodlings that usually have one reaching for the radio off-button. In place of infanticide, we get an infantile concept...
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Guardian“Unsatisfying: a proper Yorkshire pudding all gravy and no meat...” Lacks confidence, subtlety, a sense of purpose; it mistakes emptiness for spareness, and shouting for passion. It's so unengaging that it's hardly surprising that the audience tittered as the messenger delivered news of appalling slaugh
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Financial Times“it will surely not be long before another and a better one comes along...” Medea is not the subtlest of roles, but it does call for dramatic range; Kristofferson tends to restrict herself to a few discrete notes, mostly towards the high end...
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The Times“Paulin’s crisp, clear if too heavily-cut Euripides...” Nina Kristofferson, Medea in Northern Broadsides’s touring revival of the play, isn’t as scary as that, but no man would like to face the fury that she directs at Andrew Pollard’s smug, self-justifying Jason...
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