Fictionhouse Limited, Nica Burns and Kate Pakenham Productions have introduced Medea, tailored by Robinson Jeffers from the play by Euripides. Dominic Cooke directs with Sophie Okonedo as Medea and Ben Daniels as Jason/Creon/Aegeus, with full solid to be introduced. The manufacturing opens at @sohoplace on 17 February, with previews from 11 February, and runs till 22 April 2023. Further casting to be introduced.
Daniels, most lately with BBC’s The Hollow Crown – Wars of the Roses, along with working
collectively throughout a number of stage productions because the Nineteen Nineties.
What might flip a girl from a lover right into a destroyer of affection?
Medea tells the story of a girl laid naked by grief and rage, and her horrible quest for revenge in opposition to the lads who’ve deserted her.
Sophie Okonedo brings her visceral, mercurial brilliance to literature’s most titanic feminine protagonist, whose complexity and contradictions have stored audiences on the sting of their seats, unable to look away, for nearly 2,500 years.
Sophie Okonedo stated,
“I am really excited and a touch nervous to be playing Medea. I’m buoyed by the fact I’m working with two of my closest friends and long-term collaborators, Dominic Cooke and Ben Daniels. I was lucky enough to have Nica Burns show me around the new @sohoplace theatre while it was still being built, and I was so impressed by the space that I signed up immediately to perform there!”
Dominic Cooke additionally commented,
“I have been friends with Sophie Okonedo since we were in our teens. We’ve worked together many times including on Arabian Nights at the Young Vic in 1998 and The Hollow Crown: Wars of the Roses for the BBC in 2015. Sophie is one of our most visceral, emotionally connected actors and I have long thought she’d be a brilliant Medea. I am over the moon that it’s now happening as the second West End production for Fictionhouse, run by Kate Horton and myself. I’m also really looking forward to working again with the super talented Ben Daniels after our hugely fulfilling collaboration on The Normal Heart at the National Theatre. Ben and Sophie have been an explosive onstage partnership in the past and I can’t wait to see them playing these iconic roles together in Nica Burns’ thrilling new auditorium @sohoplace.”