The mythical character of Medea, traditionally presented as a female antiprototype — a courageous, courageous, proud and rebel woman who arrives at the parricida crime for following her revenge passion — has gradually transformed into the Spanish theatre of the last two decades in order to claim the strength of the sensual passion and the justification of women’s despair in the face of abandonment and amorous treason. Thus, in some recent theatre titles, Medea is identified as a symbol of the struggle for the freedom of the individual vis-à-vis the system and the patterns of prevailing social morals. In the latter sense, it is possible to find an interpretation of the myth as a reason for advocating a fairer and more equal social status for women and even a humanised, ‘comprehensive’ reading of Medea’s actions in the current context of increasingly democratic and short-lived family relationships in which the passional outbreak of violence is frequent.