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.
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