This show could be presented at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
Olga Roriz

Hippolytus (original text by Mickael de Oliveira) is a performance about brutality within family relationships. It addresses the myth of Phaedra. In classical versions, the victimisation of Hippolytus is portrayed through a phallocentric and patriarchal logic, with Phaedra as the tragic feminine motif, the anomalous social and family element. In this narrative, Phaedra, previously depicted as impious, fragile and ill, emerges as a predatory woman, psychologically perverted and, above all, a paedophile, with a “desire to love her son with her hands”, and to satisfy her sick needs through him. Amid testimonials of brutality suffered, and the confessions of a wayward son, we find — with traces of detachment — the stereotype of an adult man traumatised by his past. Hippolytus is a performance that aims to highlight the symptomatic picture of family complexes, subjecting to close scrutiny the analysis of trauma applied to sexuality.

This show features strobe lighting, real candles and smoke on stage.