Medea (Euripides/Rachel Cusk; dir. Rupert Goold), Almeida, London, October 2015
I should have hated this Medea. After all, I was massively annoyed by the National Theatre production last year, not just because of Ben Power’s pedestrian adaptation, but mostly because it reduced Medea from the status of a demigod to a woman frustrated with her domestic life. Rachel Cusk’s adaptation — though really, this is [...]