I choose to take back my life.My life.Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she's left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day's grace. It's time enough. She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear.Ben Power's version of Euripides' tragedy Medea premiered at the National Theatre, London, in July 2014.

Ben Power is a writer and dramaturg. His plays and adaptations include Euripides' Medea and Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean(National Theatre), A Tender Thing (RSC), Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith), Milton's Paradise Lost(Headlong UK tour) and for Headlong with Rupert Goold Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong UK, West End and international Tour) and Faustus (Headlong UK tour). From 2006-2010 he was an Associate Director of Headlong and from 2010 an Associate Director of the National Theatre. He was appointed Deputy Artistic Director of the National Theatre in 2015.