Forbhreathnú

• Drámadóir

  Brendan Kennelly 

• Athchóirithe/ Aistrithe ó

  Euripides

• Nótaí Faoin Údar

  A version and translation from Euripides

• Achoimre

  Medea, a barbarian witch, betrays her family to help her lover Jason win the Golden Fleece. She finds him courting another woman, the daughter of King Creon of Corinth. After failing to persuade Jason to return to her, she decides to kill her rival with a gift of poisoned clothing. She also decides to kill her children. King Aegeus of Athens stumbles along in search of a cure for his childlessness. He agrees to grant her asylum should she need it. She escapes from Jason at the end of the play on a dragon-drawn chariot given to her by her grandfather Helius, the sun god.

• Cinéal Dráma

  Athchóiriú/Aistriúchán
  

  Líon na Míreanna

  Dráma Fada

Cast size

• Male

  7

• Female

  3

• Total

  10

• Eolas Faoin bhFoireann

  Two child actors also performed in the original production.

Céad Léiriú

• Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

  05 October 1988

• Nótaí faoin Léiriú

  Produced by Medea Productions

• Nótaí faoin Ionad

  First performed at the Royal Dublin Society (Concert Hall).

Foinse Eolais

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme and from the 1988 Dublin Theatre Festival programme..