Review: Medea
Headlong Theatre’s Medea, written and directed by Mike Bartlett (whose previous Headlong collaboration, Earthquakes in London, won the company critical acclaim), features a troublesome teenager. Barlett’s Medea brings Euripides’ tragedy to a modern day suburban row of identical houses. Locked up inside, a grieving Medea (played by the delicious Rachel Stirling) and her now mute son Tom g…