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Blueprint Medea, Finborough Theatre London
Emotional charge defused in Kurdish connection with Greek tragedy
ENGAGING: Ruth D’Silva (right)
[Isabella Ferro]
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BLUEPRINT MEDEA combines two stories of immense consequence, the first being the classic Greek myth of Medea, immortalised through Euripides’s dramatic masterpiece.
The second is anything but a myth — the real and ceaseless battle by the Kurds to be recognised as an independent nation and to command their own territory.
Playwright Julia Pascal, who also directs, creates a contemporary Medea in the form of a Kurdish woman who is both exploited and oppressed while also fighting for her people and bravely asserting her noble origins.
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