Oscar-winning British actress Helen Mirren and co-star Dominic Cooper received widespread praise for Racine’s Phedre, based on Euripides’s play Hippolytus which was performed at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, as part of the Athens and Epidaurus Theatre Festival.
Phedre recounts the story of a queen’s destructive obsession with her stepson, filtered through the eyes of a 17th century French playwright and the freewheeling translation of a British poet, Ted Hughes.
Epidaurus Theatre is to host other prominent artists this summer, including British director Sam Mendes and veteran French actress Jeanne Moreau in the coming weeks.
Athens and Epidaurus Festival: www.greekfestival.gr