World premiere of a new version of Euripides classic Medea. Plays in London as part of the Almeidas Greek Season. Medeas marriage is breaking up. And so is everything else. Testing the limits of revenge and liberty, Euripides seminal play cuts to the heart of gender politics and asks what it means to be a woman and a wife. One of world drama's most infamous characters is brought to controversial new life by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold (The Merchant of Venice, King Charles III, American Psycho) and award-winning writer Rachel Cusk (Outline, Aftermath).
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Weight: 108g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 24 Feb 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781350266018
About Euripides
Rachel Cusk was born in Canada in 1967 and spent much of her childhood in Los Angeles before finishing her education at St Mary's Convent Cambridge. She read English at New College Oxford and has travelled extensively in Spain and Central America. She is the author of six novels. The first Saving Agnes (1993) won the Whitbread First Novel Award. A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother (2001) is a personal exploration of motherhood. In The Lucky Ones (2003) she uses a series of five narratives loosely linked by the experience of parenthood to write of life's transformations of what separates us from those we love and what binds us to those we no longer understand. In 2003 Rachel Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. Her latest novel is Outline (2014).