Medea [videorecording] / a Q Productions Corporation presentation for WQED/Pittsburgh in association with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ; freely adapted from Euripides by Robinson Jeffers ; directed for television by Mark Cullingham ; produced by Mary Rawson ; directed for the stage by Robert Whitehead.
This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives. Based on Euripides' tragedy Medea. Filmed at the Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. Zoe Caldwell, Judith Anderson, Mitchell Ryan, Jacqueline Brookes, Paul Sparer, Peter Brandon. "This production of Medea opened at the Clarence Brown Theatre, University of Tennessee, February 11, 1982. It opened at the Eisenhower Theatre in the Kennedy Center March 6, 1982."
Summary:
The Kennedy Center production of Euripides' great classic about a woman driven by emotion beyond the brink of rationality. Medea is abandoned by her husband Jason so he can marry the daughter of Creon, ruler of Corinth, and is exiled by Creon as a dangerous foreigner. She exacts revenge by causing the deaths of Creon and his daughter and by murdering her own and Jason's two children before escaping into exile in Athens.
Locations:
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.