1996 Phaedra´s Love

Kane adapts and directs the classical story Phaedra by Seneca.

Have you ever thought, thought your heart would break? Wished you could cut open your chest tear it out to stop the pain? Why don´t you riot like everyone else/ I don´t care Life´s too long You can have any man you want/ I want him/ except him Always suspected the world didn´t smell of fresh paint and flower/ smells of piss and human sweat If there could have been more moments like this

Phaedra´s Love premiered at the Gate Theatre, London on 15 May 1996. Directed by Sarah Kane with Cas Harkins as Hippolytus and Phillipa Williams as Phaedra and Catherine Cusack as Strophe.  In Kane´s direction the actors walk among the audience who are seated on the ground.

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