READING MODULE

Subject: TEATRO INGLÉS S. XIX Y XX

Code: 14227 group: B

NPA: CL46706 Mª JOSEFA GÓMEZ GARCÍA

Sarah Kane. Phaedra’s love. Copy from “reprografia” at the University. First performed on 15 May 1996 in London.

Dramatis personae

Hippolytus Young man. He is a spoilt brat, careless about everything and

unable to love or to feel compassion for other’s feelings. However he

shows to be very coherent with what he thinks.

Phaedra Mature woman, obsessive, mad for love, vindictive.

Strophe Young woman, sensible.

Doctor Science’s man, quiet objective and sensible.

Priest Slightly hypocrite man. He does not follow his believes.

Theseus Mature man, passionate with the sense of doing the right thing.

Man 1 Angry man with the wish of revenge. He represents the plebe.

Man 2 Angry man represents the plebe.

Woman 1 Angry woman, she is looking for justice. She represents the plebe.

Woman 2 Angry woman, bloodthirsty, she represents the plebe.

Policeman Rude man.

Plot

Phaedra is madly in love with her stepson Hippolytus who is careless of her feelings. She offers herself to him but he despises her. She can not take it and kills herself but leaves a note incriminating Hippolytus of rape. Hippolytus is in jail because he does not say the truth about everything to defend himself. He lets everybody think that he has actually raped Phaedra. Strophe, Phaedra’s daughter who is the real lover of Hippolytus knows that he has not raped her mother and would like Hippolytus to stand up for his innocence.

Space

There are different spaces. The play starts in Hippolytus bedroom, follows at the consulting room of a doctor. We also see the prison cell and outdoors outside the court.

Time

Lineal time

Personal opinion

I quiet like this play, I find it like an old Greek tragedy taken to the present times. I really like the way that is shows the behaviour of the young spoilt brat, the ones that have everything without having to fight to get it. How they look down on everyone else and what they have to offer them. The play kept surprising me till the end, in fact I read it all in one go because I could not stop reading to see where it was taking me to.