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Odyssey - Phèdre !
Culture · Thursday, December 3 · 20:00 · Périgueux
Le Palace, 15 Rue Bodin
An orator, played by actor Romain Daroles, who pretends to speak about the play whose synopsis you are reading now, ends up recounting and interpreting Racine's Phèdre. Then the different facets of the work unfold under the joyous enthusiasm of this specialist: Racine's unique and wonderful language, the power of the passions that the classical author depicts better than anyone, the mythological origins of the protagonists (Phèdre, 'daughter of Minos and Pasiphae', granddaughter of the Sun, half-sister of the Minotaur, etc.), the historical context of the writing of the p…
