Medea, National Theatre, review: Unforgettable and horribly gripping

This is, incredibly, the first ever staging of Medea in the National Theatre's 50 year history.  It's an omission all the more remarkable, given the complex feminist issues raised by Euripides' unsparing portrayal of a dumped woman driven to exacting revenge on her treacherous partner by the ultimate (and tragically self-defeating) recourse of murdering their children.

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