Isabelle Huppert is Phaedra
Robert Tanitch reviews Phaedra(s) at Barbican Theatre, London EC2 Phaedra, you will remember, marries Theseus and falls in love with Hippolytus, her stepson, and when he rejects her she tells her husb ...
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“Nobody we know, dear!”
THE ORESTEIA, which premiered in Athens in 458BC, when it won first prize, is a trilogy of murder and revenge, acted over two-and-half hours with two intervals. In the first play Clytemnestra kills he ...