{"id":45082,"date":"2023-01-05T20:58:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T20:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/05\/full-casting-announced-for-medea-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/"},"modified":"2023-01-05T20:58:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T20:58:39","slug":"full-casting-introduced-for-medea-there-ought-to-be-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/05\/full-casting-introduced-for-medea-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"full casting introduced for Medea \u2013 There Ought To Be Clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fictionhouse Limited,\u00a0Nica Burns\u00a0and\u00a0Kate Pakenham Productions have introduced full casting for <strong><em>MEDEA<\/em><\/strong>, tailored by\u00a0Robinson Jeffers\u00a0from the play by\u00a0<em>Euripides<\/em>, directed by\u00a0Dominic Cooke. The manufacturing stars the beforehand introduced\u00a0<strong>Sophie Okonedo<\/strong>\u00a0(Medea) and\u00a0<strong>Ben Daniels\u00a0<\/strong>(Jason\/Creon\/Aegeus). They can be joined by\u00a0<strong>Marion Bailey<\/strong>\u00a0(Nurse),\u00a0<strong>Penny Layden<\/strong>\u00a0(3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0Woman of Corinth),\u00a0<strong>Jo McInnes<\/strong>\u00a0(1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Woman of Corinth) and\u00a0<strong>Amy Trigg<\/strong>\u00a0(2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Woman of Corinth) with understudies\u00a0<strong>Alicia Charles<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Leda Hodgson<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Tom Peters<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"47829\" src=\"https:\/\/oughttobeclowns.com\/2023\/01\/news-full-casting-announced-for-medea.html\/medea-artwork-credit-jane-mcleish-kelsey\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oughttobeclowns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Medea-artwork.-Credit-Jane-McLeish-Kelsey.jpg?fit=1106%2C1754&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1106,1754\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Medea \u2013 artwork. Credit \u2013 Jane McLeish Kelsey\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oughttobeclowns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Medea-artwork.-Credit-Jane-McLeish-Kelsey.jpg?fit=189%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oughttobeclowns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Medea-artwork.-Credit-Jane-McLeish-Kelsey.jpg?fit=646%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47829 alignright\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oughttobeclowns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Medea-artwork.-Credit-Jane-McLeish-Kelsey.jpg?resize=189%2C300&amp;ssl=1 189w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oughttobeclowns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Medea-artwork.-Credit-Jane-McLeish-Kelsey.jpg?resize=646%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 646w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oughttobeclowns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Medea-artwork.-Credit-Jane-McLeish-Kelsey.jpg?resize=768%2C1218&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oughttobeclowns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Medea-artwork.-Credit-Jane-McLeish-Kelsey.jpg?resize=969%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 969w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oughttobeclowns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Medea-artwork.-Credit-Jane-McLeish-Kelsey.jpg?resize=880%2C1396&amp;ssl=1 880w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oughttobeclowns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Medea-artwork.-Credit-Jane-McLeish-Kelsey.jpg?resize=675%2C1070&amp;ssl=1 675w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oughttobeclowns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Medea-artwork.-Credit-Jane-McLeish-Kelsey.jpg?resize=360%2C571&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oughttobeclowns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Medea-artwork.-Credit-Jane-McLeish-Kelsey.jpg?w=1106&amp;ssl=1 1106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em>MEDEA\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>opens at\u00a0<strong>@sohoplace<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>theatre<\/strong>\u00a0on 17 February, with previews from 10 February, and runs till 22 April 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It sees Dominic Cooke reuniting with long-term collaborators Sophie Okonedo and Ben Daniels, most not too long ago with BBC\u2019s <em>The Hollow Crown \u2013 Wars of the Roses<\/em>, along with working collectively throughout a number of stage productions for the reason that Nineteen Nineties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>What may flip a lady from a lover right into a destroyer of affection?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>MEDEA\u00a0<\/em>tells the story of a lady laid naked by grief and rage, and her horrible quest for revenge in opposition to the lads who&#8217;ve deserted her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sophie Okonedo brings her visceral, mercurial brilliance to literature\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Fictionhouse Limited,\u00a0Nica Burns\u00a0and\u00a0Kate Pakenham Productions have introduced full casting for MEDEA, tailored by\u00a0Robinson Jeffers\u00a0from the play by\u00a0Euripides, directed by\u00a0Dominic Cooke. The manufacturing stars the beforehand introduced\u00a0Sophie Okonedo\u00a0(Medea) and\u00a0Ben Daniels\u00a0(Jason\/Creon\/Aegeus). They can be joined by\u00a0Marion Bailey\u00a0(Nurse),\u00a0Penny Layden\u00a0(3rd\u00a0Woman of Corinth),\u00a0Jo McInnes\u00a0(1st\u00a0Woman of Corinth) and\u00a0Amy Trigg\u00a0(2nd\u00a0Woman of Corinth) with understudies\u00a0Alicia Charles,\u00a0Leda Hodgson\u00a0and\u00a0Tom Peters.\u00a0 MEDEA\u00a0opens at\u00a0@sohoplace\u00a0theatre\u00a0on 17 February, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-drama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}