“Given the intensity and intimacy of the performances, and how the central drama is already enhanced by the reactions of the onlookers, it feels like overkill to add alarms and helicopters to Gareth Fry’s busy soundscape, and in particular the clichéd crutch of an actual storm.”
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"It’s great to see Okonedo back - she must spend her periods away charging her batteries in order to release another skinless, vivid, wrenching performance."
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"Medea is as much victim as villain in Dominic Cooke’s psychologically subtle and subversive production, and Ben Daniels is superb playing all the puffed up men in her life."
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"Okonedo and The Crown's Ben Daniels bring terrific intensity to Dominic Cooke's production of the harrowing Greek tragedy"
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"There were repeated trickles of laughter throughout the evening, a reminder of how difficult it can be to bridge the gap between ancient and modern sensibilities."
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"The staging reverberates with such resonances: it feels at once mythic and modern. ... Sophie Okonedo emerges from the carnage defiant, irrevocably damaged, but cleansed. It is a sensational performance in a production of riveting acuity."
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“It’s pretty remarkable seeing one of the world’s oldest plays in one of its newest theatres, and also seeing how in that gap of almost two-and-a-half millennia the role of women in society hasn’t changed as much as we like to think.”
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"This is a bleak and harsh production. It's inevitability makes for a breath-holding display of unflinching gut wrench, while Okonedo is worth the ticket price alone."
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