Many reviews praised the adaptation for its ferocity and intellectual power. Critics celebrated the way Cusk gave a voice to female experience that is rarely heard so directly on the stage. The play was described as "fierce and intelligent" and "wild and witty." The performances, particularly that of Kate Fleetwood, were widely lauded as "ferocious" and "soul-baring." The central argument scenes between Medea and Jason were hailed as some of the most convincing depictions of marital breakdown ever written for the stage.

Rachel Cusk completely subverts this framework. In her version, Medea’s exile is not geographical; it is intellectual and social.

Rachel Cusk’s Medea is a radical act of literary subtraction. Rather than rewriting Euripides with grand theatrical gestures, Cusk strips the myth of its ancient ceremonial trappings to reveal a contemporary domestic horror. For readers seeking the "new" perspective promised in search queries, Cusk delivers a Medea who is not a vengeful sorceress, but a woman destroyed by the logic of modern divorce and patriarchal erasure.

The most relevant result for "Medea + Rachel Cusk + New" is Cusk’s novel , published in the UK in May 2022 and North America in September 2022.