PHAEDRA
HIPPOLYTus
the wreath bearer

Work of | Euripide
Translator | Nicola Crocetti
Direction | Paul Curran

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PLOT

The goddess of love, Aphrodite, opens the tragedy and the goddess of the hunt, Artemis, closes it, but at the centre of Euripides’ ‘Hippolytus the wreath bearer’ (428 B.C.) we find not the gods, but the humane, absolute, devouring passion of Phaedra for her stepson, Hippolytus. Phaedra keeps silent about her love and consumes herself, and eventually reveals 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, whose honor is restored just before his death by Artemis herself.

CAST

Accademia d’Arte del Dramma Antico
CORO
Caterina Alinari, Allegra Azzurro, Andrea Bassoli, Claudia Bellia, Carla Bongiovanni, Clara Borghesi, Davide Carella, Carlotta Ceci, Federica Clementi, Alessandra Cosentino, Sara De Lauretis, Ludovica Garofani, Enrica Graziano, Gemma Lapi, Zoe Laudani, Salvatore Mancuso, Carlo Marrubini Bouland, Arianna Martinelli, Riccardo Massone, Linda Morando, Giuseppe Oricchio, Davide Pandalone, Carloandrea Pecori Donizetti, Alice Pennino, Francesco Ruggiero, Daniele Sardelli, Flavio Tomasello, Elisa Zucchetti.