Medea is the story of a woman’s revenge when betrayal leads to hate replacing the passion of love.  It is of course a crime of passion when she decides to kill her children to hurt their father and hurting herself.  It may have originated in Euripides’ version five centuries BC but the eternal triangle still is relevant today.  It is more common to find this crime of infanticide committed by men rather than women but it still happens as an act of revenge on the other parent of the children.   

Medea, here played magnificently by Sophie Okonedo, as a woman with magical powers which she has used to help her husband Jason (Ben Daniels) conquer all kinds of demons is stranded in Corinth.  We first hear her, we don’t see her as she wails “Let me die!” downstairs off stage.  Jason her husband has bought her here to Corinth which is ruled by King Creon, some years’ before.   Jason’s recent plan is to marry Creon’s daughter Glauce which will see him adopted as Creon’s heir.  Creon knows that Medea will present a threat to his daughter.