By Cal
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgCzWFZ5wzE&t=7s
Link to subtitled version https://www.scenesaver.co.uk/production/blueprint-medea-subtitled/
Available until: 14th November 2020
Trigger warning: references to sexual violence. 18+
Blueprint Medea was the Finborough for Free release
for July and now it’s back. It’s a good play, but the sound quality isn’t that
great so if you might want to watch it with subtitles on Scenesaver. You’ll
need to register, but it won’t cost you anything.
I didn’t know the legend of Medea when I first
watched this play. Apparently, this is a story which everyone knows, but
‘everyone’ did not include me. Knowing the story would probably help. It is a
difficult play to follow anyway, switching back and forth between the past and
present, which some sections symbolised rather than acted out and others hinted
at rather than fully explained. Having an idea of what is happening does help
to make sense of some of these moments (it did make more sense to me the second
time I watched it). But it is still quite a complicated play and even people
who know the story have had trouble following it.
