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Medea review " a female voice both ancient and modern by Susannah Clapp

Almeida, LondonKate Fleetwood stuns in the title role of Rachel Cusk's fierce and intelligent adaptationHas Homer become our new Shakespeare? Are the ancients our new contemporaries? As the stage increasingly turns to classical Greek writers for echoes of our current torments (see also this week's premiere of Simon Armitage's Odyssey), the most common resonance has often seemed vengeance, the locking of generations i…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:43AM on October 4, 2015

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