Medea
(Euripides)
What would you do if your man left you for another woman, both prettier and wealthier than you are? Win him back or get even. Medea is hardly your average woman and not a woman to be tossed aside. With the power and presence of a modern woman, giving up all for her beloved, Jason, giving him two sons and even the life of her dear brother so that he might escape the wrath of her father, Medea is scorned in this play by Euripedes for the love of a princess, the daughter of Creon, the Ruler of Corinth.Assured refuge in Athens, she vows that he rue the day he betrayed her. In a masterful trickery, she kills both the princess and her father with beautiful gifts and even kills her own sons in order to make her wayward husband suffer.Though set in ancient Greece with undertones of the Greek gods, like her flying away in Helios's chariot, the character of Medea is remarkably similar to women today. In its own racy and flamboyant way, it depicts the strife caused by betrayal of a lover in any time, then or present. You will enjoy this play so get to it!!!
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