Medea review " Rupert Goold directs a ferocious Kate Fleetwood
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…