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Phaedra(s), Barbican Theatre, review: 'Huppert's achievement at keeping you compelled feels all the more prodigious' by Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor

It's twenty years since Isabelle Huppert last appeared in a London theatre. She certainly makes up for lost time now, delivering a tour de force of extraordinary physical abandon and mesmeric skill in this three-and-half-hour mash-up of different takes on the legend of Phaedra, the woman who, in Greek myth, is seized by a fatal passion for her stepson, Hippolytus. The actress is barely offstage during this multi…

SOURCE: The Independent at 07:32AM on June 13, 2016

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