Phaethon is a one-act play that serves as a parable, introducing the archetypal rivalry of the son with the authoritarian father-Sun in the present time.<\/p>\n
Domestic morbidity, terror and violence; the decay of the family\u2019s social core. In Dimitriadis\u2019 play, the ancient Greece and contemporary England blend into each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n
An anatomy of the archetypal familial, social, political, divine and cosmic brutality; the only possibilities of salvation lie in resistance, disobedience, and the real or\/and symbolic murder of every Father figure, of every authoritative imperative and emasculating violence.<\/p>\n
The action unfolds in a modern middle-class living room in North London. A modern family is entrenched in its suffocating limitations: Hamnet Lom, Julie, Beth, Ann, Lelo; the parents, their two daughters and only son are the main characters,\u00a0 while several others \u2013 from the wider friendly and family environment \u2013 are recalled through the narrative.<\/p>\n
Lelo eventually escapes from the family grip, but only after he murders his father.<\/p>\n
The play was first published in French, in 2009. In 2013, it was presented in a directed reading in Paris.<\/p>\n
Phaethon<\/p>\n
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