Athens - Epidaurus Festival 2009

National Theatre of Great Britain - Nicholas Hytner

Jean Racine, Phèdre
in a version by Ted Hughes

Epidaurus Ancient Theatre / 10 & 11 July 2009, 21:00

Direction: Nicholas Hytner
Designer: Bob Crowley
Lighting Designer: Paule Constable
Sound Designer/ Music: Adam Cork
Company Voice Work: Kate Godfrey
Staff Director: Nadia Fall
Stage Manager: David Milling
Deputy Stage Manager: Anna Hill
Assistant Stage Manager: Ian Farmery
Costume Supervisor: Christine Rowland
Surtitles: Christina Pangoureli

Cast:

Hippolytus: Dominic Cooper
Theramene: John Shrapnel
Oenone: Margaret Tyzack
Phèdre:Helen Mirren
Panope : Wendy Morgan
Aricia: Ruth Negga
Ismene: Chipo Chung
Theseus: Stanley Townsend
Phedre’s son: Giorgos Liakopoulos

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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Duration

The performance lasts 2 hours with no intervals.

Tickets

€50 (Prime Circle);
€40 (A’);
€30 (Β’);
€20 (Upper Tier).
Student tickets available.

Venue Access

Palea Epidavros, Argolis, Peloponnese

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