Medea: the mother of all roles
Diana Rigg played a memorable Medea " now her daughter Rachael Stirling is taking it on. She talks to Maddy Costa, while other actors recall their own immersion in one of theatre's toughest partsThink of the most troubled women in theatre and Medea comes pretty high on the list. A byword for narcissism and violence, she is abandoned by her husband, and lashes out by killing their children. Yet to hear Rachael Stirlin…