The National Theatre presents 'Phedre'

Date: 25 June 2009 - 25 June 2009
Opening hours: 7.30pm
Type: Music and Theatre
Location: SGC Dungarvan
Directions: Dungarvan town
Disabled Access: Yes
Cost: Charges Apply
Contact: SGC Dungarvan
Telephone Number 00353 1520 927010
Email: none@none.ie
Web Address: www.sgcdungarvan.net

Details: Nicholas Hytner, the renowned English film and theatre producer and director, has announced the launch of National Theatre Live, an initiative to broadcast live performances of plays into cinemas around the UK and internationally. The NT Live launches with 'Phedre' starring Helen Mirren with the performance been filmed live in high definition and broadcasted via satellite to approximately 50 venues across the UK, potentially reaching an audience of up to 10,000 people in a single evening. Cinema audiences will be able to watch backstage footage and interviews with artists.

'Phedre' is an adaptation by the Poet Laureate of Jean Racine's play of the same name. Helen Mirren takes the title role in this savage play, translated into muscular free verse by the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes.

Phedre burns with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. His father, Theseus, is made to believe that it is Hippolytus who is lusting after Phedre, and begs Neptune to kill his son, which he does before discovering the truth.

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