Medea

by Euripides and adapted by Steen

22nd - 30th August 2025

  • Medea gave up everything to help Jason and his Argonauts win the Golden Fleece, betraying her country, her family and her gods to help him. She enchants the much younger Jason to win his love and, now alone on the other side of the world, he has deserted her and their two sons to marry a Princess and rule in Corinth, where they have settled.

    Medea has taken refuge in a derelict temple where she is visited by Jason, King Creon of Corinth and Aegeus of Athens, who try and reason with her and calm her often violent temper. With her is a Greek chorus of women, also brought from other places and mistreated by the male dominated society that was ancient Greece. Desperate and friendless, Medea takes terrible revenge on Jason and those who have brought her to this low place.

  • Mise-en-scene: Steen
    Music: Jasmin Sim
    Vocal Coach: Samantha Atkinson
    Technical: Zachary Hanlon
    Publicity: Nick Kilpatrick

  • Medea, High Priestess of Hecate - Cathy Bates
    Jason, Captain of the Argo - Michael Ianni
    Atalanta, Friend to Medea - Nurina Simpson
    Apollonus, Teacher of the Children - Dylan Horvat
    Creon, King of Corinth - Brett Osseweyer
    Aegeus, King of Athens - Andrew Gobran
    Greek Chorus - Gillian Meers, Elise Holland, Lucy Miller, Maria Chrysafogeorgou, Jack Cooper, Ben Rayner, Daniel Buys, Michael Emerson, Byron Schipp, Brady Neilson, Cyrus Fletcher, Jasmine Sim, Jackson Hawkins, Christian Tagliaferro & Maddie Ferrier