Whisked away on a boat to the seemingly isolated Trinity Buoy Wharf at eleven o’clock at night, there’s definitely something adventurous about the prospect of Hotel Medea. As other shows bring their ...

There’s a risky idea behind this theatre “experience” currently running as part of the Southbank Centre’s festival of the world — to keep audiences awake from midnight until six the next morning for a ...

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It's not quite as easy to capture the imaginations of a modern audience with Greek tragedy as it was at the old Dionysia festival, but when it works, it works. This season, Dalston's Arcola Theatre ...

Operagoers often brandish their tickets to Wagner's "Ring" cycle like a badge of honor. But in the latest twist in theatrical one-upmanship, "Hotel Medea," at London's Arcola Theatre, is a six-hour ...

A man stands before us muttering the words, "I'm not mad. I’m not mad.” He is wearing tattered, filthy long johns and the remnants of yellow stockings round his ankles. Under his chin is a red turkey ...

This devised piece by Zecora Ura and Urban Dolls Project takes a poetic and theatrically unique approach to the tragedy of a wife scorned: audience members sit barefoot in a pool of water as the ...

The audience mingle with the cast during the six-hour Hotel Medea Of all the Edinburgh Fringe shows which involve the audience as active participants, one of the most ambitious must be Hotel Medea. It ...

At its official world première after two years in gestation, Brazilian-British collaboration Hotel Medea is about as far as one can get from an ordinary night at the theatre. The performance by Zecora ...