Tag Archives: Actors of Dionysus

Medea, Actors of Dionysus, Rose Theatre, Kingston, November 2013

Posted on 14 November 2013

At the end of this play, Helios the sun god comes to Medea’s rescue, carrying her through the air in a chariot from Corinth to Athens. This deus ex machina pulls her out from certain death in a city where her sorcery has killed its king and his only daughter, destroyed her ex-husband Jason’s plans …

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Paris Alexandros, by Euripides, Actors of Dionysus, October 2012

Posted on 29 October 2012

This was a theatrical reading at Europe House in London on 25th October 2012. Euripides’ play The Women of Troy starts two days after the Greeks have taken the city, and ends with Queen Hekabe stepping forward into slavery. It is the final part of a Trojan Trilogy whose first two parts are largely lost, but inspired …

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