Nancy Opel's performance alone is a good enough reason to see My Deah, John Epperson's adaptation of Euripides' Medea, set in the American South. Opel plays the title character, and even more impressively, My Deah's maid, Lillie V. Her characterizations are so distinct that, after the show, I overheard someone wondering aloud why the maid didn't take a curtain call.

Epperson, best known as the drag performance artist Lypsinka, mines the comic potential of the Medea story, paying homage to the works of Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company while also tipping his hat to Southern Gothic novels and the plays of Tennessee Williams. Directed by Mark Waldrop, the production is acted in an[...]