Some variations on Racine's 'Phedre'

Some work notes by Antoine Vitez at the Quartier d'Ivry Theatre preceded An ne Delbee's meditation on Phedre's seven metamorphoses. From the Versailles rearing horse to Francois Regnault's symbolical setting, she reflects on d esire leading up to nakedness, before working on language bordering on poet ic song, against a Jansenist background. Phedre was produced in Italy by Lu ca Ronconi around a telescope, and in Japan by Moriaki Watanabe in a style close to the old local performances. It gave Cecile Garcia-Fogel the desire to make its most astounding scenes poetically sing.