![]() ![]() ![]() “I have been friends with Sophie Okonedo since we were in our teens. I was lucky enough to have Nica Burns show me around the new Soho Place theatre while it was still being built, and I was so impressed by the space that I signed up immediately to perform there!” Sophie Okonedo ![]() I’m buoyed by the fact I’m working with two of my closest friends and long-term collaborators, Dominic Cooke and Ben Daniels. “I am really excited and a touch nervous to be playing Medea. Medea is now playing for a strictly limited season until 22 April 2023 (with best availability Monday to Wednesday). Dominic Cooke directs Sophie Okonedo as Medea and Ben Daniels as Jason/Tutor/Creon/Aegeus in this ‘uncompromising, brutally human 90-minute production’ (Evening Standard). Medea, adapted by Robinson Jeffers from the play by Euripides. Sophie Okonedo brings her visceral, mercurial brilliance to literature’s most titanic female protagonist, whose complexity and contradictions have kept audiences on the edge of their seats, unable to look away, for almost 2,500 years. Medea tells the story of a woman laid bare by grief and rage, and her terrible quest for revenge against the men who have abandoned her. What could turn a woman from a lover into a destroyer of love? Dominic Cooke’s subtle, brilliant staging ![]()
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