Medea at Soho Place
Well that was an unforgettable hour and a half! High expectations preceded this and I am pleased to say the production definitely delivered. I saw Helen McCrory’s Medea at the National and she was amazing - all powerful ice cold fury. Sophie Okonedo’s Medea is different again. A powerful wounded creature emerging from her lair, prowling the stage seething with rage and vengeance but with sharp wit and intelligence too, gaining sympathy which made the horror all the more effective. The performance in the round in a brand new and very comfortable theatre meant that the whole audience was gathered round and somehow complicit whilst also being horrified onlookers unable to stop the headlong rush to disaster. The cast positioned in the audience certainly helped with that as they wrung their hands and tried to persuade of better ways. There were a few things that are clearly fashionable at the moment - slow motion movemen...