An unlikely spirit of play presided over the Deborah Warner/ Fiona Shaw Medea, which ran for thirteen performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater in the first two weeks of October as part of the 20th Next Wave Festival. There were toys scattered about the stage at the beginning of the play, and Medea’s children, when the came bounding in from the audience, were outfitted in dress-up gear. (One wore a homemade cloak and miniature spiked helmet, the other one of those paper sailor hats you fashion out of newsprint.) The chorus of women were autograph-hunting celebrity-hounds in Continue reading

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