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First Look: Medea at @SohoPlace in Rehearsal

by Staff Writer
January 27, 2023
Reading Time: 5 mins read
Ben Daniels and Sophie Okonedo in rehearsal for Medea @sohoplace. Photo Johan Persson

Ben Daniels and Sophie Okonedo in rehearsal for Medea @sohoplace. Photo Johan Persson

First look rehearsal images are released for MEDEA, adapted by Robinson Jeffers from the play by Euripides, directed by Dominic Cooke.

The production stars Sophie Okonedo (Medea) and Ben Daniels (Jason/Tutor/Creon/Aegeus+). They are be joined by Marion Bailey (Nurse), Penny Layden (3rd Woman of Corinth), Jo McInnes (1st Woman of Corinth) and Amy Trigg (2nd Woman of Corinth) with understudies Alicia Charles, Leda Hodgson and Tom Peters.

MEDEA sees Dominic Cooke reuniting with long-term collaborators Sophie Okonedo and Ben Daniels, most recently with BBC’s The Hollow Crown – Wars of the Roses, in addition to working together across multiple stage productions since the 1990s.

       

What could turn a woman from a lover into a destroyer of love?

MEDEA tells the story of a woman laid bare by grief and rage, and her terrible quest for revenge against the men who have abandoned her.

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