Where:White Bear Theatre, 138 Kennington Park Road, London, SE11 4DJ When: 18th May-13th June 2010, Tuesday-Saturday: 7:30pm, Sunday: 5:00pm How long: An hour and a half with no interval How much: £13 (£10 concessions) Tickets from:Ticket Web or 020 7793 9193 (leave a message with the number of tickets you wish to reseverve and on which date. They will only get back to you if there are no seats available.)
Hippolytus is a Greek tragedy by Euripedes, in case you didn’t know. In it, the Greek goddess of love and lust, Aphrodite, is furious that Hippolytus rejects her in favour of a chaste existence and seeks bloody revenge, destroying everything and everyone around him. As spurned Greek goddesses called Aphrodite were/are want to do.
However, this production is based on a new translation by David Crook that “emulates the poetry of the Greek text using a modern language through which it engages the audience as Euripides’ play would have engaged its 5th Century BC Greek audience”.
Is this true? Does it work? Well, only if you’re in middle management.
Since we’re all modern and webby, here’s a video trailer of the production.
