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.