Name: Medea
Start: 2026-03-14T19:00:00+00:00
Location: 195 Argyll Street, Dunoon

Doors open 7.00pm, show starts 7.30pm
Cost: £14.00, Under 18's £10.00 plus booking fee
Bard in the Botanics in association with Raw Material, supported by Macrobert Arts Centre
Medea
By Euripides
In a version by Kathy McKean
Directed by Gordon Barr
“I am not a part of the story you tried to write
I am the story
And it ends when I say so”
Everyone knows how Jason won the Golden Fleece – everyone knows how he became a hero for all time – and everyone knows the part his wife, Medea, played in creating his legend – don’t they?
Erased from the narrative – abandoned by her husband for a new wife and a new life – left isolated and alone in a city where she does not and cannot belong – Medea begins to plot revenge – a terrible, bloody revenge that will send a howl of rage echoing through the ages.
The award-winning production of this thrilling Greek tragedy returns re-imagined to tour Scotland’s stages.
REVIEWS
‘Kathy McKean’s Medea burns with rage and rips at the heart’ – The Scotsman
‘More than 2,000 years on from the original, in a version that brings a sharp edge of 21st century language to the story, we still find ourselves gasping at its boldness’ – The Scotsman
‘An utterly scintillating 90 minutes of theatre’ – The National
Winner – Best Production & Outstanding Performance CATS Awards 2022
Funded by Creative Scotland Touring Fund