Phèdre (tbc)
- Run time: tbc
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 1st January 2009
- Starring: Helen Mirren, Dominic Cooper, Margaret Tyzack
- Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
- Distributor: National Theatre
Plot Synopsis
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.