"This is a bleak and harsh production. It's inevitability makes for a breath-holding display of unflinching gut wrench, while Okonedo is worth the ticket price alone."
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“Okonedo’s masterful performance certainly plumbs those depths and reveals that bleeding heart, but there is also a stiffness to Cooke’s overall direction that seems to counter such unveiling for much of this austere production.”
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“ ‘Medea’ at @sohoplace theatre is a powerful and relevant adaptation that will leave you torn and aching for more.”
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“ ‘Medea’s’ story is sadly still highly relatable today, and this powerfully staged production is an emotionally challenging reminder of that.”
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"Okonedo and The Crown's Ben Daniels bring terrific intensity to Dominic Cooke's production of the harrowing Greek tragedy"
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"It’s great to see Okonedo back - she must spend her periods away charging her batteries in order to release another skinless, vivid, wrenching performance."
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"There were repeated trickles of laughter throughout the evening, a reminder of how difficult it can be to bridge the gap between ancient and modern sensibilities."
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“It’s pretty remarkable seeing one of the world’s oldest plays in one of its newest theatres, and also seeing how in that gap of almost two-and-a-half millennia the role of women in society hasn’t changed as much as we like to think.”
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