Reduced Circumstances presents

BySarahKane

Phaedra’sLove

28 September – 22 October 2011 7.30pm (mat 4.00pm)

Director Bronwen CarrDesigner Anna Bliss ScullyLighting Designer Tom WhiteSound Designer Steve Mayo

Cast:Phaedra: Joanna RothHippolytus: Nicholas ShawTheseus/Priest/Doctor:Rupert Holliday EvansStrophe: Emma KeeleEnsemble:Andrew VenningBriony MorrisElizabeth MerrickGary MerryJessica ChamberlainKes Gil MartinLaura GardinerLaura RiseboroughLucinda WestcarMaisie TurpiePerry Kate LambertWill Cooper

Phaedra’s LoveBySarahKane

News. Another rape. Child murdered. War somewhere.Few thousand jobs gone. But none of this matterscause it’s a royal birthday.

A major revival of Sarah Kane’s blackly comic reworkingof Seneca’s classical tragedy of monarchy, incest andfatal obsession, which premiered in 1996:

Pure theatre.Or rather impure theatre: dirty, alarming, dangerous.Observer

Sarah Kane was at the forefront of a new wave of writingin the 90s, termed ‘in-yer-face’ that challenged the formof British Theatre. She burst quickly on to the scene in1995 with her controversial play Blasted, which wasfollowed by four more plays over the next four years –Phaedra’s Love, Cleansed, Crave and 4.48 Psychosis.Kane tragically committed suicide in February 1999,aged 28, after battling with mental illness. She describedPhaedra’s Love as “my comedy”.

FREE Pre-show workshops prior to Thursday matineesfor schools and colleges. For further info and to book,email: info@reducedcircumstances.co.uk

Reduced Circumstances presents

Box Officewww.arcolatheatre.com020 7503 1646

Arcola Theatre24 Ashwin StreetDalston, London E8 3DL

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Tickets £17 (£11 concessions)

Matinees Thurs & Sat at 4.00pm: 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22 October

Pay What You Can Tuesdays (tickets in person from 6.30pm - subject to availability)

£10 previews Wednesday 28 & Thursday 29 September (not available online)

£10 Thursday matinees (not available online)