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Aside from this "box spirit" innovation, the play remains essentially intact. The focus remains throughout on our crazed heroine, whose reputation precedes her. For, more than two millenia before Glenn Close wielded her first Ginsu or Farrah Fawcett burned her first Sealy mattress, there was Medea and her ignominious crimes of passion...
...really can't blame Medea for acting like Alexis Colby. After all, it's not every day that the father of your two sons dumps you to marry a royal princess. Too bad Medea didn't have a case of china at her disposal when Jason tried to explain to her that he married the princess because it would be a beneficial move for the state. It might have come in handy...
TANYA Selvaratnam as Medea goes full throttle with the mental illness aspect of her character. From the very beginning of the play, Selvaratnam portrays Medea as having lost it full tilt. Thus, you lose sight of the rational motivations that her character might possess...
...direct contrast to Selvaratnam's stress grenade performance is Stefan Howells' cold and calculating portrayal of Jason. Jason has some terrific exchanges with Medea where he tries to convince her that the marriage was necessary. Howells perfectly grasps his character's mathematic precision of logic. At one point--Light Spirit forbid--you almost believe in what Jason is saying...
Creon (Peter Mitchell), Jason's father and ruler of Corinth, can be blamed for the relationship's messy breakup. Trying to be a good father, he looks out for his son's political best interests. He realizes that Medea is not from the right side of the Parthenon, so he sends her walking. Likewise, Medea's Nurse (Zoe Mulford) is looking out for her charge. Mitchell's hard-edged Creon is not exactly Heath-cliff Huxtable. But Mulford, with her sympathetic swooning and simpering, makes Mrs. Cleaver look like an absentee parent...