Medea

Workshop: June 9, 1:00-2:30 PM

Watch Ahead: Youtube (free)

Cast and Crew: Book: Euripides | Adaptation: Robinson Jeffers | Director: Robert Whitehead | Starring: Zoe Caldwell, Judith Anderson

Run time: 1 ½ hours

Critical Thinking Prompts

1. What makes this production starring Zoe Caldwell a performance for the ages?

2. How does Miss Caldwell create sympathy for a character that co-exists with our horror at what Medea does? What is our own frailty, the frailty of our own humanity, in a dual response?

3. How far is too far? Where are the limits to revenge and the rage to right a terrible wrong, in a society of law and morality? When is a tooth for a tooth not the answer?

Supplemental Resources

• INTERVIEW with Charlie Whitehead

• Watch the Women in Theatre interview with Zoe

• Zoe Caldwell Wins the Tony Award for Medea

• Zoe Caldwell's 4th Tony award originating the role of Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's Broadway production of Master Class demonstrates the breadth of her range from deepest drama to highest comedy: Master Class Reviewer Reel

• Zoe Caldwell Wins the Tony Award for Master Class