Phèdre gets left behind
Phaedra, the title role in Jean Racine’s “Phèdre,” is probably one of the world’s first drama queens. She oscillates between living and dying, sanity and madness, and lament and rage enough to make your head spin. Her forbidden love for her stepson Hippolytus sends her and the rest of the cast of the play into a whirlwind of chaotic emotion that threatens to tear apart a family and destabilize a kingdom. That’s all well and good, but when that whirlwind is unleashed onstage, there are certain expectations. First and foremost, it is expected to cohere, and despite an admirable attempt on...
could not agree more - great review.