Medea

NURSE

"What she guards is her loss, nurturing it into fury"

"Weeps herself into nothingness and cannot be consoled"

"She'll burn the bliss of Jason and his new wife"

"Can't bear to see her sons, the products of their father"

"Drives her to an awful grief, she has not eaten, she has not slept, she is half mad with sorrow"

"Medea has begged him to remember his vows'

"She just snarls and glares when anyone approaches"

"She'll turn a bloody hand to her own house, her own family"

"Stays locked up in grief"

"Fury that won't be calmed'

"Slit their royal fathers throat"

"Fell horribly in love

CHORUS

"Has a stone in place in place of her heart"

"We pity you hapless, helpless mother"

" The future for you now is dark uncertainty"

"Take your revenge Medea, the gods support you"

"This terrible grief could make her do something foolish'

"Helpless wife"

"Murderous hands"

" May they know the pain, that now we see in you"

"Extremities of passion lead us only into terrible danger"

"Slandered by the tongue of gossip"

"We are not here to listen to her morbid self-pity"

"Once showed kindness to all the women of Corinth'

ATTENDENT

"Are you insane? Can you smile at the devastation of our royal house"

AEGEUS

"Your marriage always seemed so complete a partnership"

"I will do all i can to protect you"

"My old friend and her young family'

JASON

"I civilised you"

"Still, I don't hate you"

"You've insulted the royal family"

"You're your own worst enemy'

"Your words don't hurt me"

"You've forced yourself into exile"

"Temper would get you into trouble"

"You're trying to kill me with grief"

"You shall be hated, cursed by the gods"

"In letting me see my beloved boys, this is grace"

"I don't blame you for what has past"

"Stop this stubbornness, open your eyes and see the help im offering you"

"You're jealous of Kreusa"

"You were nothing when I found you"

KREON

"I fear your magic and your anger"

"You're a stranger here, and your nature is dark, unknown"

"Proud, lustful and Half mad with bitterness and jealousy"

"Im afraid of you"

Medea

What Other Characters Say About Medea

What Medea said about herself

“Throw off your sex”

“Pathetic, weak- willed women”

“My heart is wrenched in two”

“These tears are a sign simply of a women weakness’

“I blame myself, my pride, my sex”

“Intensity of feeling”

“Drowning in loss”

“I am already nothing”

“I choose to take back my life”

“My shipwrecked life”

“I have the magic of my ancestors”

“I abandoned my father, I slaughtered my brother”

“Experts in terror, experts in pain”

“I have courage, enough to this through”

‘Theres still life in me, I'm not finished”

“Troubles come upon me like great waves”

Stage Directions

“We see Medea, coved in blood. She carries the bodies of her sons. The rain stops. The thunder subsides”

“ Medea watches her sons present Kreusa with the package”

“Medea stares at them. She is about to speak when Jason enters”

“Medea collapses to her knees”

“She collapses’

"She grabs his hands”