[NEohioPAL] "a transfixing, transforming experience" T. Brown -- MEDEA at Actors' Summit

[Thackaberr at aol.com]

Tony Brown in the Cleveland Plain  Dealer. 
The fates and the furies  
The omnilateral destruction wreaked by  hatred is also the compelling theme 
of "Medea," poet Robinson Jeffers'  gorgeously gory-tongued adaptation of 
Euripides' tale of a mother who avenges  her husband's unfaithfulness by killing 
their kids.   
On a set that is little more than a pair  of benches and a double door, 
director Neil Thackaberry creates 95 minutes of  hell, a compilation of rash 
decisions by irrational humans caught up in fates  they brought upon themselves.  
The cast of one dozen (including two  adorable children) is varied in its 
individual abilities, but all are capable or  better.  
Dark-eyed Sally Groth, whose work in the  area heretofore has tended toward 
sunnier roles, shimmers with a motherly beauty  as Medea, burning with an inner 
fire so volcanic it could only emanate from a  woman scorned.  
Thackaberry could tweak the final scenes  to better stoke our horror, but 
this is a transfixing, transforming experience.   
Through Sunday, Nov. 4, at 86 Owen Brown St., Hudson. $18-$25. 330-342-0800.  
 




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