Phaedra

After three sleepless nights, Phaedra steps into the sun—and longs to follow a chariot racing through the dust. Then she hears her own words and blushes at the secret they betray.

In ancient Troezen, with King Theseus absent and his fate uncertain, Jean Racine’s tragedy brings a royal household to the edge of confession. Hippolytus means to leave, hiding his love for Aricia; Phaedra, his stepmother, is wasting away beneath a passion she believes shameful. As duty, desire and the fear of what may happen to her children close around her, even silence becomes dangerous. What will Phaedra reveal—and what will that confession set in motion?

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