The harrowing 4th century BC story of revenge by Euripides. Medea had done everything for Jason (of the Argonauts), including killing her brother and father. They have two sons and move to Corinth where falls for Glauce, the king's (Creaon) daughter. In revenge, Medea gives the bride a poisoned garment which kills both her and her father. Not content that this will exact sufficient ruin on life, she decides she must kill their sons as well.
The play fully captures the seeming inevitability of the unfolding of tragic events while Helen McCrory portrayed excellently her agonising but compulsion to come up with the most horrific prescription.
Monday, 1 September 2014
13 August 2014. Mondrian at the Turner Gallery, Margate
An interesting exhibition showing the dramatic transition, lubricated by theosophy, of Mondrian's work from more conventional representational work to the famous grids of primary colours, black and white. I found particularly memorable the pictures of his small Paris studio in which he lived alone for many years as well as the description of his voyage to New York in a convoy, during which he spend much of his time on deck as a precaution. A very interesting life, only really gaining recognition once he was in New York and taken up by Peggy Guggenheim. Most of the works came from the Hague.
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