{"id":3811,"date":"2024-10-20T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/article\/phaedra-or-alcestis\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T11:24:16","slug":"phaedra-or-alcestis","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/article\/phaedra-or-alcestis\/","title":{"rendered":"Phaedra Or Alcestis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A contemporary play inspired by Euripides\u2019 tragedies <em>Hippolytus <\/em>and <em>Alcestis<\/em>.\u00a0 Why Phaedra or Alcestis?\u00a0 A fresh take at Phaedra\u2019s love and Alcestis\u2019 love.\u00a0 Why doesn\u2019t Phaedra pull back from her obsession with Hippolytus?\u00a0 Why can\u2019t she love him, without possessing him?\u00a0 And why is Alcestis\u2019 love is so selfless?\u00a0 How do we fall in love?\u00a0 How do we love?\u00a0 How do we live in love?\u00a0 How does love kill us? \u00a0Phaedra and Alcestis present two different extremes in the same old love story.<\/p>\n<p>The stage is divided in two.\u00a0 On the right is the palace of Phaedra and on the left is that of Alcestis.\u00a0 The action starts on the right.\u00a0 We watch Phaedra\u2019s drama in her palace.\u00a0 As soon as Phaedra dies, the action moves to the left, and we follow Alcestis\u2019 drama.\u00a0 The connecting character is Death.\u00a0 Death is there to take both women with him, and he does so.<\/p>\n<p>Written in Greek, it has been translated in German by Torsten Israel and in English by the playwright.<\/p>\n<p>Phaedra Or Alcestis<\/p>\n<p>3 male &#8211; 4 female<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[11],"class_list":["post-3811","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}