Soho Place Theatre, until 22nd April
‘Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,' said that splendid playwright William Congreve, ‘nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.'
Was he thinking of Medea when he coined this immortal couplet? Those two lines sum up the essence of Euripides's timeless play.
Medea was already a familiar figure in Greek mythology when Euripides made her the heroine of this tragedy, first performed in 431
