Directing Thesis: Phaedra’s Love
Student Event
Directing Thesis: Phaedra’s Love
Directed by current student Danica Selem, this production of Phaedra's Love flips inside out the very abject nature of the most elemental epitome of human relations—a family.
FREE
Lenfest Center for the Arts - The Flexible Performance Space
February 23, 2024 | 8:00 pm
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Cast

Ben Milliken
Hippolytus
Ino Badanjak
Phaedra
Charlotte Peartree Moon
Strophe
Sean Hoagland
Theseus / Doctor / Priest

Creative Team

Danica Selem
Director
Emma Denson
Assistant Director
Sarah Kane
Playwright

Location

Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 W 129th St
New York, NY

About The Performance

Columbia University School of the Arts presents Phaedra’s Love, a directing thesis production by current student Danica Selem.

Experience the haunting intensity of Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love, a gripping theatrical masterpiece that flips inside out the very abject nature of the most elemental epitome of human relations – a family. In Kane’s blunt and vulgar adaptation of Seneca’s Phaedra, a seemingly joyous birthday celebration descends into a harrowing tale of passion, delusion, domination, and the tangled webs of human brutality.

Please note this production contains graphic and strong language, nudity, sexual acts, portrayal of sexual violence (including rape), use of stage blood, violence, portrayed death and suicide, and usage of strobing lights and flashing lights.

For more information, please visit the event website.

Image: Production artwork for Phaedra’s Love