"Medea" by Euripides at the Ancient Theatre of Argos

Sunday, July 28, 2013 "Medea" by Euripides at the Ancient Theatre of Argos. The play starts at 9.00 pm Ticket prices : 15 Euros (general admission) - 12 Euros (children, students) - 10 Euros (unemployed, people with movement difficulties) Medea’s a man! Giorgos Kimoulis returns to Epidaurus to play Euripides’ archetypal heroine in a unique production with an all-male, masked cast. A tragedy with modernistic elements, Medea (431 BC) addresses the eternal struggle between Man and Woman as well as the clash between two cultures. A complex, alluring creature, the princess from Colchis, a foreigner in Corinth, experiences the ultimate betrayal at Jason’s hands. Medea the witch vows to take her revenge and comes up with the most inhuman punishment of all. Starring : Giorgos Kimoulis, Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos, Tasos Nousias, Manos Vakousis, Nikolas Papagiannis, Nikos Anastasopoulos, Dimitris Papanikolaou and a 12-member Chorus.