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Simon Stone, writer/director, Medea (2020), stageplay in production for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, to premier 12 January 2020 (starring Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale, a real-life married couple).

Simon Stone, a contemporary Australian playwright, "Stone has reworked Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck and Aeschylus' The Oresteia. At the upcoming 2019 Salzburg Festival, he will direct Cherubini’s opera Médée." (Playbill)

A screenshot of a video titled "Medea" featuring Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale, with text "Brooklyn Academy of Music, 12 Jan 2019" below

I saw this play in Amsterdam in 2014 and wrote a Mythmatters piece on it. "Stone's contemporary re-working of Medea was previously seen at International Theater Amsterdam (ITA, formerly Toneelgroep Amsterdam) in 2014, and at London's Barbican earlier this year featuring a different cast. In the modern-day version, Anna, once a successful doctor, returns from a stint in a psychiatric hospital. Willing to forgive her husband’s affair with a younger woman, she wants a fresh start with him and their children. But he has different plans. Sidelined and in danger of losing everything, she is driven into a corner and sees only one way out." (Playbill)

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