Christopher Mirto (Director) and Brenna Palughi (who plays Phedre) talk about the Racine's play and the upcoming production at Yale School of Drama.
Yale School of Drama
2009-10 SEASON
PHÈDRE
By Jean Racine
Translated by Ted Hughes
Directed by Christopher Mirto
Oct 27 31
Tuesday through Saturday 8pm
Saturday Matinee 2pm
University Theatre, 222 York Street
In Phèdre, Jean Racine's 17th-century fairy tale for fools, the gods wield love as a weapon, using it to turn the world upside down. To ravish it. Queen Phèdre, dying from an uncontrollable love for her stepson Hippolytus, savagely wages war against herself and her own fate. Politics and passions, the mind and the body contaminate each other as a cursed family struggles to navigate a labyrinth of dangerous secrets and unspoken desires. When love unleashes the monster within, is there any hope of salvation?
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