"Phaedra", recognized as the dramatist's greatest masterpiece, is the mythological re-telling of Theseus's wife's love towards his stepson, Hippolytus. The author, who drew largely from Euripides' ...

Fourteen young Athenians are being selected for the journey to Crete. Theseus - son of King Aegeus - is determined to be one of them. Theseus persuades his father to allow him to go to Crete ...

Theseus, later Phaedra’s husband (and, lest we forget, the father of Hippolytus), is sent to kill the beast. Ariadne falls deeply in love with Theseus and agrees to help him, but once the beast ...

Benjamin Britten’s Phaedra – a work he called a cantata but which is more ... Each mound in turn triggers a memory – the dead Minotaur (slaughtered by her husband Theseus), her wedding shoes, and a ...