EURIPIDES – author of the great play Medea – is a foundational figure in European tragic theatre. Without him, and fellow Ancient Greek dramatists Sophocles (author of Oedipus Rex and Antigone) and Aeschylus (The Oresteia), the Renaissance tragedies of William Shakespeare would be unimaginable.
It is appropriate, therefore, that Bard in the Botanics (BiB) – Glasgow’s annual mini-festival of Shakespeare – should this year be staging Medea alongside three plays by the Bard of Stratford.
