The National Theatre's Phèdre Returns
NT Re-broadcast: Phèdre
We are very pleased to welcome back the production that launched our National Theatre Live programe last year, Nicholas Hytner's Phèdre with Helen Mirren, Margaret Tyzack and Dominic Cooper.
Consumed by an uncontrollable passion for her young stepson and believing Theseus, her absent husband, to be dead, Phèdre confesses her darkest desires and enters the world of nightmare. When Theseus returns, alive and well, Phèdre, fearing exposure, accuses her stepson of rape. The result is carnage.
