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...soon-to-be father-in-law, then slaughtering her sons so her husband's bloodline will die with him -- Medea sets sail for a new life. Most stagings leave her outside her home merely talking of departure. In director Jonathan Kent's version, a wall topples to reveal Diana Rigg apparently already at sea. Hunched during her period of rage and oppression, she stands proud as a ship's figurehead, clouds streaming past, golden light burnishing her. Then she turns and looks back, toward the scene of her unrepented misdeeds and, surely, toward an audience agape at the beauty...
...rest is more ordinary. Rigg is wonderful in quiet moments but awkward in striving for the unchained melodrama that Zoe Caldwell achieved in a 1982 revival. The balance of the cast, also from London, is workmanlike, save for Nuala Willis, whose keening songs redeem that most archaic of theatrical ploys, the chorus. The set, a vast wall of rusted metal panels that bang like thunder and tumble away at key moments, is effective but excessive, a tacit confession of shaky faith in the power of the play's words. That doubt is foolish. Medea is the greatest role ever written...
According to Karen Rigg, dean of students at Northeastern, 95 percent of all acquaintance rapes are not reported to authorities...
...Rigg spun eloquent puns throughout her lecture; describing the moratorium on acting when the dead Queen Elizabeth was to be waked for a month, Rigg said, "This is one instance where no stone, no turn...
...Rigg more than once brought the audience to applause. Reading Dorothy Parker's review of A.A. Milne's "Give Me Yesterday," Rigg said, "He is given yesterday. I would have given him twenty to life...