Phaedra(s), Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, Barbican by David Nice

Britten fathomed Phaedra's passion for her stepson in a shattering quarter of an hour's dramatic cantata. Euripides' Hippolytus takes about 90 minutes in the playing. Director Kryzsztof Warlikowski's fantasia on the Phaedra myth is more than twice that long, but it's worth every riveting or disconcerting minute thanks largely " but by no means exclusively " to the encyclopedic range of Isabelle Huppert.read…

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