"I think creating something beautiful about despair is the best way to glorify life." - Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane's (1971-1999) play Phaedra's Love is a paraphrase of the Greek myth about Prince Hippolytus and his lustful stepmother Phaedra. In her writing, Kane sought a form that expressed both the necessity and impossibility of communicating through language. Therefore, "Phedra's love" is a visual, poetic performance full of concentrated images. In it, awkward silences strained by passion and fear speak louder than words, and in the thickened silence the characters betray their inner chaos.
Can suicide be an expression of love? Is self-destruction self-destruction, or can it be a way of creation? A way to create yourself? Can a conscious life in sin be purer than going every weekend to confess your sins and then repeat them again? Is radical self-honesty possible, or is it not a form of lying to oneself? If these questions make us think, they must also make us smile.
In the production of Kane, the actor must be ready to bare his soul in front of the audience. This is the only way to create the music of loss. Only in this way does the lust that cannot be communicated in words sound. Actress Gabrielė Ladygaitė, nominated for the Golden Cross of the Stage, plays in the play together with the youngest generation of talented students of O. Koršunov.
"Hippolytus, trying to be radically honest with himself, has cut himself off from the world, shut himself up within the four walls of his room. I think that many will recognize such a depressing existence. An existence in which you claim that the outside world is not worth worrying about, but at the same time hide your sensitivity. I think that even in the last second of the performance, the audience will not be able to decide whether these characters are insignificant people or something that is closest to divinity." - director. Laura Kutkaitė
