Medea [first edition]

First performed in Athens, 431 B.C., this classic play is one of the most searingly intense of all Greek tragedies. Spurned by the husband whose life she saved, the celebrated sorceress of legend plans a terrible revenge on the man she had loved. In this remarkable translation, Seana McKenna portrayal of Medea is mesmerizing and breath-taking as it is cruel and heatless.