Medea, a Q Productions Corporation presentation for WQED/Pittsburgh in association with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ; freely adapted from Euripides by Robinson Jeffers ; directed for television by Mark Cullingham ; produced by Mary Rawson ; directed for the stage by Robert Whitehead
Type
Label
Medea, a Q Productions Corporation presentation for WQED/Pittsburgh in association with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ; freely adapted from Euripides by Robinson Jeffers ; directed for television by Mark Cullingham ; produced by Mary Rawson ; directed for the stage by Robert Whitehead
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Medea
Oclc number
56017686
Responsibility statement
a Q Productions Corporation presentation for WQED/Pittsburgh in association with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ; freely adapted from Euripides by Robinson Jeffers ; directed for television by Mark Cullingham ; produced by Mary Rawson ; directed for the stage by Robert Whitehead
Runtime
87
Summary
The Kennedy Center production of Euripides' great classic about a woman driven by emotion beyond the brink of rationality. Medea is abandoned by her husband Jason so he can marry the daughter of Creon, ruler of Corinth, and is exiled by Creon as a dangerous foreigner. She exacts revenge by causing the deaths of Creon and his daughter and by murdering her own and Jason's two children before escaping into exile in Athens
Table Of Contents
Mark Cullingham, television director; Mary Rawson, television producer
Technique
live action
resource.variantTitle
Euripides, Medea
Classification
Contributor
- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.)
- Q Productions
- Ryan, Mitchell
- Rawson, Mary
- Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962
- Films for the Humanities (Firm)
- Euripides
- Cullingham, Mark
- Sparer, Paul
- Brookes, Jacqueline
- Brandon, Peter, 1926-1983
- Caldwell, Zoe
- WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- Whitehead, Robert, 1916-2002
- Anderson, Judith, 1897-1992
Subject
Content
Actor
resource.adapter
Producer
Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor15
- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.)
- Q Productions
- Ryan, Mitchell
- Rawson, Mary
- Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962
- Films for the Humanities (Firm)
- Euripides
- Cullingham, Mark
- Sparer, Paul
- Brookes, Jacqueline
- Brandon, Peter, 1926-1983
- Caldwell, Zoe
- WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- Whitehead, Robert, 1916-2002
- Anderson, Judith, 1897-1992
- Genre2
- Subject6
- Content1
- Actor6
- resource.adapter1
- Director2
- Producer1
- Mapped to1