Phaedra
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Nachtkritik
11/2022
Verdammt sind sie alle
Welt Kultur
11/2022
Vorsicht, diese Aufführung könnte Spuren von Seneca enthalten
Der theater Verlag
11/2022
Schrecklich schöne Vorstadtidylle
Team
Written by
freely based on Seneca and Racine • in a rewrite by Thomas Jonigk
Director
Ersan Mondtag
Artistic collaborator
Alexander Naumann
Stage design & Video
Ersan Mondtag
Musical arrangement & composition
Beni Brachtel
Costumes
Teresa Vergho
Lighting design
Jan Steinfatt
Dramaturgy
Sarah Lorenz
With
Benny Claessens, Margot Gödrös, Benjamin Höppner, Yvon Jansen, Lola Klamroth, Kei Muramoto, Kristin Steffen
Phaedra's fate is set in stone. Since the ancient Greek myth existed, it has been carried forward to the present day: Euripides, Ovid, Seneca and Jean Racine are just a few writers who have processed the material.
There are also operas, films, frescoes and sarcophagi that deal with history. The ending usually stays the same: Phaedra commits suicide. She cannot bear the shame of encountering unrequited love from her stepson. Her closest confidant, Oenone, also dies in the course of the play: she wanted to protect her mistress and spread the rumor that Hippolytos, the son of Phaedra's husband, had stalked the lovesick royal wife. The king believes the rumor, which means the death of his own son.In a rewrite for the Cologne Theater, the author Thomas Jonigk now lets Phaedra know about her inescapable fate. You, like all the other characters, are aware of the course of the story - but cannot escape it.
Photo credits: Birgit Hupfeld
Time
26. November 2022 – 22. January 2023