[Black movement] Medea

The Playhouse. University Theatre 1969-70. 50th Anniversary Season The Pennsylvania State University. 89 x 58 cm.

Sm. tears in upper and lower margin, otherwise fine. Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based on the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the actions of Medea, a former princess of the kingdom of Colchis, and the wife of Jason; she finds her position in the Greek world threatened as Jason leaves her for a Greek princess of Corinth. Medea takes vengeance on Jason by murdering his new wife as well as her own two sons, after which she escapes to Athens to start a new life.