Class of 2014 Debs Night
August 31, 2014Founder’s Day 2014 at Larch Hill
September 28, 2014John Scottus Classical Studies group outing, organised by Mrs Waters and Mr. O’Connor, went to the Lighthouse Cinema in Smithfield for a live screening of English National Theater’s Medea,Euripides’ 2,500-year-old tragedy. The score, set, staging and production were top class.
Helen McCrory was a magnificent Medea who was hardly off-stage for the entire 90 minutes of compelling drama. The women of Corinth were the Greek chorus who performed twitchy dances perhaps matching the turmoil of a demented mother and lover driven to extremes. It was a great production, deeply disturbing but memorably good. Interesting to note that well-performed ancient Greek theater can impress the sophisticated modern teenager.