JUST when it looked as if the National Theatre of Scotland’s contribution to the 2022 Edinburgh Festivals might be a programme best forgotten (thanks to the depressingly disappointing dance-theatre piece Burn, starring Alan Cumming, and the misfiring political satire Exodus), the company pulls a rabbit out of the hat with this Edinburgh International Festival production of Medea (The Hub, until August 28).
In truth – blessed, as it is, with Liz Lochhead’s excellent Scots-English adaptation of Euripides’s ancient tragedy, directing by the acclaimed Michael Boyd and a top-notch cast, led by the fantastic Adura Onashile in the titular lead – it was always likely to be as close as one gets to a safe theatrical bet.
