National Theatre Live: Phèdre

The result is carnage.

• Drama

• 125 Mins
• 2009
• en

• star7.8/ 10

A new English adaptation of the classic French tragedy Phèdre by Jean Racine (1639-1699). It retells the ancient Greek tale of the wife of the Atenian King Theseus, who conceived a forbidden love for his son (by an earlier wife) Hyppolytus. All ends badly for all.