Fictionhouse Limited, Nica Burns and Kate Pakenham Productions have introduced full casting for MEDEA, tailored by Robinson Jeffers from the play by Euripides, directed by Dominic Cooke. The manufacturing stars the beforehand introduced Sophie Okonedo (Medea) and Ben Daniels (Jason/Creon/Aegeus). They can be joined by Marion Bailey (Nurse), Penny Layden (3rd Woman of Corinth), Jo McInnes (1st Woman of Corinth) and Amy Trigg (2nd Woman of Corinth) with understudies Alicia Charles, Leda Hodgson and Tom Peters.
MEDEA opens at @sohoplace theatre on 17 February, with previews from 10 February, and runs till 22 April 2023.
It sees Dominic Cooke reuniting with long-term collaborators Sophie Okonedo and Ben Daniels, most not too long ago with BBC’s The Hollow Crown – Wars of the Roses, along with working collectively throughout a number of stage productions for the reason that Nineteen Nineties.
What may flip a lady from a lover right into a destroyer of affection?
MEDEA tells the story of a lady 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 saved audiences on the sting of their seats, unable to look away, for nearly 2,500 years.