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Phaedra's Lust

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The story of Phaedra has been debated for over 2000 years: a woman struck by an obsessive lust and passion for her son Hipploytus. What is most intriguing to us is that the passion arrives instantly. Using texts by Racine and Sarah Kane, this non-linear experimental physical theatre 12 minute theatre piece explores the inner workings of Phaedra’s mind at the moment she is struck with the instant passion for her son, which later, becomes her downfall.

Created by The Company
Directed by Jack Grinhaus
Performed by Kaleb Alexander, Lauren Brotman, Andrew Loder, and Jamie Maczko
Original music by Romeo Candido

"Fab LabCab"

" ... Bound to Create Theatre’s Phaedra’s Lust made more erotic use of the steps under Jack Grinhaus’s direction. Drawing on several sources (Seneca, Racine and Sarah Kane) to retell the classical Greek story of forbidden love, the excerpt featured Lauren Brotman as Phaedra and a trio of men (Kaleb Alexander, Andrew Loder and Jamie Maczko) as variations on Hippolytus, the stepson she desires. The action moved up and down the staircase, and it was exciting to have all that passion, in both text and movement form, spilling over the central railing to the audience sitting opposite." - Jon Kaplan, Glen Sumi: NOW LabCab Wrap-Up.

http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/Phaedras_Lust-10656.aspx

 
" Literature can entertain, in fact must entertain, but only the dim or brainwashed artist is content merely to entertain, to play the clown…I want desperately to get close to the spectator, to each and everyone I have trapped in the darkness or half light, to penetrate very close and intimate, like a knife in the rib. I want to make that spectator happy but uncomfortable. I want to tear him open, guts and all, spice him, cook him in the filthy, stinking broil of our history. I want him washed inside out like the naked truth, and then sew him back again a different man. I believe if we wound ourselves with reality… that we can attain a new positive awareness. "
FEMI OSOFISAN