Phèdre
Americannoun
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Phèdre is the passion of the story and the person about whom I hope the audience can say 'that has been me', or at least 'could have been me'.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2013
I remember going to the very first of these, Hytner's own production of Phèdre, with Helen Mirren, in 2009, and feeling it was revolutionary in its potential to enlarge the audience for drama.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2013
The National Theatre is now in its second season of NT Live, which began beaming live theatre into cinemas with its production of Phèdre with Helen Mirren.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 11, 2010
This was a somewhat different experience from doing Racine's "Phèdre" onstage in London, I suppose?
From Salon ● May 23, 2010
The word strikes oddly on our ears, but every stage of the passion of Phèdre is indeed reasonable, logical, as only a French poet, since the Greeks themselves, could make it.
From Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory by Arthur Symons
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