Medea 1959
A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.
A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.
Several different accounts of the same incident tell quite different stories about what happened.
In this acclaimed production of John Steinbeck's classic morality tale, award-winning actress Colleen Dewhurst stars as Mordeen, a wife driven to desperate measures to give her aging circus performer husband a child. Dana Elcar, Donald Madden and Tony Award winner Myron McCormick round out the talented cast of this televised Broadway Theatre Archive production, produced by Lewis Freedman and Henry Weinstein.