Medea
The fires of rage in Medea burn hot, but in Simon Stone’s new adaptation, all we see are the ashes. Stone’s modern-day reworking of Euripides’ familial tragedy about an enraged woman who murders her children offers a more clinical, scientific scrutiny of the circumstances that led a mother to do the unthinkable. And, it is clear, Medea’s story is not as simple as might seem in a Cliff's Notes summary.
Escaped Alone
This 50-minute production from London’s Royal Court Theater unsettlingly juxtaposes a cosy conversation in an English garden with an end-of-the-world scenario.