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STRAIN by Passion Pit |
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Strain - modern reworking of Greek classic |
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Hippolytus
is a young man of royal birth and extraordinary athletic prowess.
He loves hunting but despises women and all things sexual. Sexual
passion, obsession and tradgedy ensu. |
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Get ready for a great night out
at the:
CAMBRIDGE DRAMA CENTRE
Fri 20th & Sat 21st September 2002 at 8pm
Tickets are £8 & £5.50 conc.
Box
Office 01223 511511
Breaking Strain is a modern and satirical reworking of the classical
Greek legend of Hippolytus and Phaedra.
 Nothing
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Euripidean
doctrine
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This adaptation
has been written by and is starring Justin Butcher, the writer of
Scaramouche Jones, which played to rapturous audiences for a week
at the Cambridge Arts Centre with the fantastic Pete Postlethwaite
in the title role, prior to an immediate West End run.
The ancient Greeks believed in giving due honour in equal measure
to all the various Gods and Goddesses representing each sphere of
life, the constant refrain in Euripides’ Hippolytus translates as
“nothing in excess.”
Excessive reverence for one deity, one area of life, to the exclusion
of all the others, could result in destruction.
Hippolytus is a young man of royal birth and extraordinary athletic
prowess. He loves hunting but despises women and all things sexual.
All his devotion is given over to Artemis, the virgin goddess of hunting.
Naturally this offends Aphrodite, the goddess of love, whose revengeful
response is to make Hippolytus’ stepmother Phaedra fall hopelessly
in love with him. So begins a story of gradually accelerating sexual
obsession that can only result in tragedy.
This show features certain scenes of nudity, comic representations
of sexual acts and some strong language, it is therefore recommended
that it is not suitable for under 16’s. |
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