Last year theater audiences gazed at Fiona Shaw, who had the title role in a Broadway production of Medea by Euripedes. She portrayed a woman who murders her children as revenge against Jason, her unfaithful husband. Shaw, the New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley, and the play’s director Deborah Warner, talk about the spectacular and the tragic in Medea. Produced by Leital Molad.

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