FEDRA
HIPPOLYT
BEARER OF
CROWN
Work of | Euripide
Direction | Paul Curran
Translator | Nicola Crocetti
Direction | Paul Curran
Translator | Nicola Crocetti
PLOT
The goddess of love, Aphrodite, opens the tragedy and the goddess of the hunt, Artemis, concludes it, but at the centre of Euripides’ ‘Hippolytus the crown bearer’ (428 B.C.) are not the gods, but the human, absolute, devouring passion of Phaedra for her stepson, Hippolytus. Phaedra keeps silent about her love and consumes herself, eventually revealing it only to her nurse, who speaks in vain to the furious and contemptuous Hippolytus. Phaedra hangs herself, leaving behind a writing in which she accuses her stepson of rape. Her husband, Theseus, then causes the death of Hippolytus, who is rehabilitated at the point of death by Artemis herself.
COMING SOON
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DATES
MAY
11/15/17/19/21/23/25/29/31
JUNE
02/04/06/08/14/16/18/20/22/24/26/28