National Theatre of Great Britain – Nicholas Hytner
Jean Racine, Phèdre in a version by Ted Hughes
Consumed by an uncontrollable passion for her young stepson and believing Theseus, her absent husband, to be dead, Phèdre confesses her darkest desires and enters the world of nightmare. When Theseus returns, alive and well, Phèdre, fearing exposure, accuses her stepson of rape. The result is carnage.
Look at me – see a woman in frenzy. I am in love.
Helen Mirren takes the title role in this savage play by Jean Racine, translated into muscular free verse by the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes.
In English with Greek surtitles.
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