Looking beyond the murders in ‘Medea’ at Actors’ Shakespeare Project - Arts

“One of the things we faced working on the play was the profound specter of inevitability,’’ says David R. Gammons, who is directing “Medea’’ at Actors’ Shakespeare Project, “because everyone just has that one-sentence description of this play: ‘Medea, betrayed by her husband, kills her children.’ It’s hard to face a play that comes freighted with that much expectation.’’