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First reading for Grassroots Greeks, 2004 Performance at 6 th At Penn, October-November, 2007. Director Ruff Yaeger Set design, Costumes and Lighting Ruff Yaeger Cast Medea, Daughter of Aeetes, king of Colchis, Jason’s first wife, Monique Gaffney Jason, Son of Aeson, who ruled Iolcus, John DeCarlo Creon, King of Corinth, Steven Jenson Aegeus, King of Athens, John Martin Nurse, old servant of Medea from her home in Colchis, Darlene Cleary Tutor, Joseph Dionisio Messenger, also servant of Jason, various Chorus of Corinthian women, Allison Finn Two boys, Medea’s and Jason’s children, screen projections 6
Cast Medea, Daughter of Aeetes, king of Colchis, Jason’s first wife Jason, Son of Aeson, who ruled Iolcus, Creon, King of Corinth Aegeus, King of Athens Nurse, old servant of Medea from her home in Colchis Tutor Messenger, also servant of Jason Chorus of Corinthian women Two boys, Medea’s and Jason’s children 7
Page 1 and 2: Euripides’ Medea Int. and Trans.
Page 3 and 4: Electra ?422-16 BC Trojan Women 415
Page 5: two sides to everything. The ancien
Page 9 and 10: She’s a very strange woman. Anyon
Page 11 and 12: NURSE Go inside, children. And, you
Page 13 and 14: Did you hear? What a song of sorrow
Page 15 and 16: and lord it over others in private
Page 17 and 18: I fear the harm you could do to my
Page 19 and 20: MEDEA I have enough suffering, I do
Page 21 and 22: for their bitter marriage, and so w
Page 23 and 24: abandoned my father and my own home
Page 25 and 26: But I did it for money—that’s i
Page 27 and 28: who will help you. You’d be a foo
Page 29 and 30: AEGEUS I’m childless. That seems
Page 31 and 32: AEGEUS How could he do something as
Page 33 and 34: AEGEUS Don’t you trust me? What i
Page 35 and 36: If I do what I have in mind, I will
Page 37 and 38: Do not kill your children. How will
Page 39 and 40: MEDEA It’s nothing. I was thinkin
Page 41 and 42: ing your mother the good news she i
Page 43 and 44: Exit TUTOR. Children, you have a ho
Page 45 and 46: CHORUS Many times I’ve played wit
Page 47 and 48: she covered her eyes and turned awa
Page 49 and 50: Exit MESSENGER. CHORUS Fate and Jas
Page 51 and 52: To slay her own children: Ino drive
Page 53 and 54: ecause you killed your own brother
Page 55 and 56: JASON And I loathe the sound of you
Page 57 and 58:
Oh, I wish I had never had children
Page 59:
PELION (PEE-lee-on), mountain in Th
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