Medea is a wife and a mother ... Ben Brantley, New York Times: Ms. McCrory, a commanding actress with a crypt-tone voice, delivers a lacerating study in a madness with which any latter-day ...

Helen McCrory is on exceptional form as Medea, the most disturbing of Greek tragic heroines. The character tends to be portrayed as a she-devil, a murderous manipulator who’s wild with love and ...

This is the play's first production by the National Theatre and director Carrie Cracknell ... The play stands or falls on the central character and Helen McCrory rises magnificently to the task ...

The Harry Potter actor throws her all into the role of the spurned wife who gets revenge by killing her own children Helen McCrory of ... night at Britain’s National Theatre on Monday, sets ...

Mark Strong won Best Actor for his performance in the Arthur Miller play A View From The Bridge, at London's Young Vic theatre and Wyndham's Theatre. The acclaimed production won two gongs at this ...

London’s National Theatre has announced its plans ... The lineup includes a revival of Euripides’s Medea with Helen McCrory in the title role, a new play by Tom Stoppard directed by Hytner ...

Production images have been release for Medea at the National Theatre starring Helen McCrory in the title role. Adapted by Ben Power, the show features music from Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory and ...

And the National Theatre has assembled quite a ... But this galaxy of talent would be nothing without a Medea able to carry the extraordinary burden of the tragedy and Helen McCrory is simply stunning ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Helen McCrory of ... that may not be the "Medea" of all time but is certainly one for this age. The adaptation, which had its press night at Britain's National Theater on ...

Helen’s McCrory’s death from cancer at the age ... On stage, she performed with the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company, at the Almeida and Donmar Warehouse, and in the West End.

Helen McCrory ... at the Royal National Theatre in London. Some of her other theatrical roles included a part as Rosalind in a production of “As You Like It,” “Medea” and Isben’s ...

At the end, as Medea staggers back onto stage under the weight of her crimes, I felt shattered, quite distraught. Such was the conviction and brilliance in Helen McCrory's acting that for Medea ...