Looking at Medea

by David Stuttard

  Chorus Zeus on Olympus watches over many things. The gods have many shapes and they appear most often when you don’t expect them. What seems most likely does not come to pass. A god can find a way to do the unexpected. Such is what happened here.

  Figure 4 Modern stage production of Medea, produced and performed by the Actors of Dionysus 2013 (© David Stuttard)

  Figure 5 Tamsin Shasha as Medea in Actors of Dionysus’ 2013 production at the Rose Theatre, Kingston.

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  Index

  [Aristotle], Constitution of Athens (1)

  Achilles (1), (2)

  Acrisius (1)

  Actor (1), (2)

  Adago (1)

  Aeëtes (1), (2), (3)

  Aegeus (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), (15), (16), (17), (18), (19), (20), (21), (22), (23), (24), (25), (26), (27), (28), (29), (30)

  Aegisthus (1), (2)

  Aeschylus (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10)

  Aeschylus, Agamemnon (1), (2), (3), (4)