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PHÈDRE

PHÈDRE

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May 26, 2014 to May 28, 2014

JÉRÉMIE NIEL, MONTREAL
Consumed by forbidden desire, Phèdre falls prey to public condemnation. In a society where everyone spies on everyone else, how to escape the judgement of the crowd? Nourished by the imaginations of Euripides, Seneca, Racine and Sarah Kane, this powerful reworking of the myth of Phaedra is anchored in the current era, in its zones of uncertainty, its decadence. In a setting rife with dark compulsions and by means of words piercing through the silence, the intimate and the social come clashing together. With Marie Brassard, Benoît Lachambre, Emmanuel Schwartz and Mani Soleymanlou.