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Phaedra(s)

Krzysztof Warlikowski and Isabelle Huppert

Dates

Prices

5 — 48 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Tuesday-Thursday
Time
20:00
Venue
Main Stage

Information

Tickets

Full price: 15, 25, 35, 45, 48 €
Reduced, Friend & Small groups (5-9 people): 12, 20, 28, 3, 38 €
Large groups (10+ people): 11, 18, 25, 32, 34 €
People with disabilities & Unemployed: 5 €
Companions: 10 €

General

It is likely that some scenes will unsettle younger viewers.

Isabelle Huppert transforms herself into a goddess, a queen, a sacred prostitute, a love-struck suicide and an icon to self-destructive passion as she serves once more as muse beyond compare for the great Polish director, Krzysztof Warlikowski.

A true star with more than a hundred films and cult roles to her name along with awards at Cannes and Venice, Isabelle Huppert comes to the Onassis Stegi to perform a sensational recital of transformations.

She becomes the goddess Aphrodite and queen Phaedra of myth, a sacred prostitute, a love-struck suicide, an uncompromising modern woman and a living icon to self-destructive passion. Because “Phaedra(s)” is a playfully magnificent (and magnificently playful) meditation on love through the ages, which takes Euripides, Senecca and three of our contemporary novelists as its multiple starting points. It is the brainchild of one of the leading directors of our time: the Polish iconoclast, Krzysztof Warlikowski.

Boxing up his eight-member cast in an architectural stage set of unparalleled beauty, Warlikowski presents us with an idiosyncratic elegy to love, fusing scenes from Hitchcock’s “Psycho” and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Teorema” with electric guitar riffs and incendiary performances from an exceptional cast headed by Huppert.

"Phaedra(s)" is an iconoclastic production based on an intricate mosaic of texts which draws equally on ancient Greek myth, pop culture, philosophy and contemporary politics. Extracts from two ancient tragedies—Euripides’ “Hippolytus” and Seneca’s “Phaedra”—are combined with three contemporary works: "Phaedra’s Love" by the emblematic British Nineties dramatist and suicide, Sarah Kane, the novel “Elizabeth Costello” by the South African Nobel prize-winner J.M. Coetzee, and texts by the Canadian-Lebanese author Wajdi Mouawad.

Scenes from the films

Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock, 1960, USA © Shamley Productions Inc.
Frances by Graeme Clifford, 1982, USA © StudioCanal Films Ltd
Teorema by Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968, Italy © Exclusive distribution for France, Sidonis production

Credits

  • Texts

    Wajdi Mouawad / Sarah Kane / J.M. Coetzee

  • Direction

    Krzysztof Warlikowski

  • Dramaturgy

    Piotr Gruszczyński

  • Sets & Costumes

    Małgorzata Szczęśniak

  • Lighting

    Felice Ross

  • Incidental Music

    Paweł Mykietyn

  • Video

    Denis Guéguin

  • Choreographies

    Claude Bardouil, Rosalba Torres Guerrero

  • Make-up, hair & wigs

    Sylvie Cailler, Jocelyne Milazzo

  • Sound

    Thierry Jousse

  • Composition of on-stage music

    Bruno Helstroffer

  • With

    Isabelle Huppert, Agata Buzek, Andrzej Chyra, Alex Descas, Gaël Kamilindi, Norah Krief, Grégoire Léauté, Rosalba Torres Guerrero

  • Assistant director

    Christophe Sermet

  • Associate costume designer

    Géraldine Ingremau

  • Trainee assistant director

    Matthieu Dandreau

  • Script coach for Andrzej Chyra

    Maciej Krysz

  • Puppeteers

    Coralie Leguevaque, Claire Vialon

  • Jewellery

    Marina Gendre

  • Furs

    Frédéric Keskinides

  • Animal sculpture

    Gladys Le Bihan

  • Costume manufacture

    Atelier de création du Moulin Rouge

  • Set construction

    Atelier de construction de l'Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe

  • Music recording

    Paweł Mykietyn (electronic music), Paweł Stankiewicz (electric guitar), Sebastian Wielądek (ney and toumberleki)

  • Sound recording

    Jarek Regulski

  • The song Al-Atlal,with lyrics by the poet Ibrahim Nagi, was set to music by

    Riad Sunbati for the legendary diva Oum Kalthoum

  • World première

    17 March 2016, Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, Paris

  • Production

    Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe

  • Co-production

    Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand—Scène nationale (France), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Théâtre de Liège (Belgium), Barbican—London & LIFT (UK), Onassis Stegi, Athens (Greece)

  • With the support of

    the Polish Institute, Paris

  • Acknowledgements

    Wander & wonder—objet de lumière modulable

  • With the generous support of

    Crystal Equipement

  • Isabelle Huppert’s costumes feature in association with

    Les Maisons Dior, Givenchy Saint-Laurent by Hedi Slimane

  • Simard Agence Artistique inc. handles the theatrical texts of

    Wajdi Mouawad

  • L'Arche publishes and handles the play L'Amour de Phèdre by

    Sarah Kane (in its French translation by Séverine Magois)

  • Elizabeth Costello © 2003 by

    J.M. Coetzee (in its French translation by Catherine Lauga du Plessis for Éditions du Seuil)

  • Une chienne by Wajdi Mouawad was published by

    Leméac/Actes in Sud-Papiers, March 2016

  • Subtitles translation

    Louiza Mitsakou

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