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Slaughter
Author(s): Tomasz FryzełSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: "Phèdre(s)"; Wajdi Mouawad; Sarah Kane; John Maxwell Coetzee; Krzysztof Warlikowski; Odéon – Théâtre de l'Europe in Paris
Summary/Abstract: Tomasz Fryzeł reviews the play "Phèdre(s)" directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski (Odéon – Théâtre de l'Europe in Paris, premiere: 17.03.2016). Fryzeł points out that the multiplicity of texts that inform the play cause the co-existence of many different narratives on stage within a single character – Phèdre. The author interprets the part based on Wajdi Mouawad as a mythological anti-history in which the evaluation of the character takes place from Phèdre’s perspective. Fryzeł sees the second part, based on Sarah Kane’s Love of Phèdre, as a critique of Western civilization. In the third part, staged as a television interview, Phèdre becomes Elisabeth Costello from the novels of J. M. Coetzee. The critic notes that quotes from Racine’s Phèdre allow Warlikowski to take a critical standpoint against the French tradition of staging this drama and the interpretation of the main protagonist.
Journal: Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 133-134
- Page Range: 155-159
- Page Count: 5
- Language: Polish