Sophie Okonedo to play Medea at new West End theatre
The production, beginning next February, will be directed by Dominic Cooke for @sohoplace in London Sophie Okonedo is to star as Medea at the new West End theatre @sohoplace in a production directed by Dominic Cooke next year. Cooke described Euripides's Medea as "a play defined by the actor who plays it" and said that Okonedo has the "visceral power, intelligence and courage to … go to the extreme places that the…