Set design created by Leslie Hurry for the set in front of Medea’s House in Corinth in a production of Medea by Euripides, directed by John Gielgud and presented at the Edinburgh Festival in 1948. The sets were built by Brunskill & Loveday and painted by Alick Johnstone.

Medea, a free adaptation from the original play by Euripides, was created by the America poet, Robinson Jeffers. The production was directed by John Gielgud for the Royal Lyceum Theatre and was presented between 22 August and 12 September as part of the 1948 Edinburgh Festival. It transferred to the Globe Theatre, London on 27 September 1948.

J.C.Trewin in the Observer 3 October 1948 described 'the great portico of the house of Medea at Corinth set against a lowering sky’ with ‘vast doors through which Medea, royal witch of Colchis must come with her “wailing born of lost delight.” For Harold Hobson the Edinburgh staging had, no ‘notions of magazine-cover beauty [and] The vast palace in which he houses Medea has Greek foundations in pediment and pillars. But these bulge and burgeon out of classical proportion, they are outlandish and rain-sodden like Stonehenge and are situated in the middle of a wild and desolate plain which the storms of a thousand years have brought to this desolation and sterility.’