Medea
April 2001
Trade Paperback · 80 Pages
$18.95 U.S.
ISBN 9781854596024
Nick Hern Books
Trade Paperback · 80 Pages
$18.95 U.S.
ISBN 9781854596024
Nick Hern Books
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Description
Liz Lochhead’s stunning new version of Medea is the kind of interpretation—brave, visionary, risky—that blows a well-known text apart and reassembles it in a completely new light… What Lochhead does is to recast Medea as an episode—ancient but new, cosmic yet agonizingly familiar—in a sex war which is recognizable to every woman, and most of the men, in the theatre…—The Scotsman
About the Author
Liz Lochhead is a poet, playwright, performer and broadcaster. She was born in Motherwell in 1947, studied at Glasgow School of Art and now lives in Glasgow. She first attracted notice with her play Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, and susequently with Perfect Days, Misery Guts and her adaptation of Medea.