About This Show
Phaedra is Matthew Maguire’s present-day story inspired by an Ancient Greek myth and “a response” to the classic French drama by Jean Baptiste Racine. Melinda Hall directs.
In Maguire’s narrative, Faye is the mother of young children and married to Thomas, one of the wealthiest and most powerful industrialists in the United States . Faye has an erotic fixation on her stepson, William. William has a complete aversion to sex until he begins to feel his own erotic longings for the beautiful young Aricia. While attracted to William, she has other objectives driven by ambition and revenge. Two associates of the family, Angus and Nonny, pursue agendas of their own. Faye is determined to sexually gratify herself with William. He resists her advances and is subsequently falsely accused of a terrible crime. Uncontrolled desire goes beyond erotic impulses to manifest itself in the lust for acquisition and absolute power in a family trapped by sexual manipulation, corruption, materialism.
It will all come to no damn good.
