 Event |
Phaedra
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| Venue |
St Mary's Cathedral, Parnell, New Zealand |
| First Date |
24 June 1980 |
| Last Date |
12 July 1980 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Professional |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
Raymond Hawthorne's production triumphantly demonstrates that Seneca's drama of excess is overdue for the reassessment which has rescued many of its savage English progeny from oblivion. Hawthorne acts here as almost an Artaudian metteur-en-scene, ruthlessly cutting, rearranging and clarifying the text, supercharging the ferocity of seneca's rhetoric with the howls, hisses, and gutteral cries of a chorus of maenads, and punctuating the action with deafening explosions of kettledrum and gong. But the result strikes one as surprisingly faithful to the atmosphere of the original. |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
|
| Secondary Genre |
Tragedy
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Text Nationality |
Italy
|
| Further Information |
Part of Theatre Corporate's season at St Mary's.
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Set |
Theatre Aotearoa |
| Event Identifier |
188952 |
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