Medea

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Faber & Faber, 2014 - Drama - 61 pages
I choose to take back my life. My life. Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she's left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day's grace. It's time enough. She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear. Ben Power's version of Euripides' tragedy Medea premiered at the National Theatre, London, in July 2014.

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About the author (2014)

Ben Power is a writer and dramaturg. His plays and adaptations include Euripides' Medea and Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean(National Theatre), A Tender Thing (RSC), Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith), Milton's Paradise Lost (UK tour) and for Headlong with Rupert Goold Six Characters in Search of an Author (UK, West End and international Tour) and Faustus (UK tour). Work for screen includes adaptations of Richard II and Henry V for BBC/NBC Universal as part of the Hollow Crown series. Richard II won the RTS Award for Best Single Drama. From 2006-2010 he was Associate Director of Headlong and from 2010 an Associate Director of the National Theatre. He was appointed Deputy Artistic Director of the National Theatre in 2015.