Almeida, London Rachel Cusk's updated version of Euripides's tragedy is wild and witty but dilutes the tragedy by eschewing the violenceReimagining the classics is fine. There is, however, a massive contradiction in Rachel Cusk's alternately exhilarating and baffling new version of Euripides's Medea. Cusk preserves the outward form of a drama about a woman driven to kill her own children but radically alters the clim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AM on October 2, 2015