History Theatre / PhaedrasLove

It is a loose retelling of the classical text Theatre/{{Hippolytus}} with Kane's iconic use of violence and taboo subjects unlike the classic text it displays the violence on stage. Sarah was commissioned by The Gate Theatre to write it, she would also direct it.

In this version Phaedra doomed love for Hippolytus is retold with him as the central character, he is rude, lazy and dissatisfied with everything. Phaedra's love is rewarded with nothing like she wanted and she lets Hippolytus suffer for his emotional abuse.

* AdaptationalDistillation: In this retelling the Gods don't have anything to do with the piece, the play is set in the complementary world rather than classic Greece. In fact during the [[spoiler:execution of Hippolytus]] the chorus is a group of Brits that have come for the day out.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Hippolytus regularly jerks off into whatever available clothing is lying near him.

* CassandraTruth: Like the original play Phaedra accuses Hippolytus of rape, which is a lie and he is commended to die, [[spoiler:however he doesn't deny it in the play]].
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Hippolytus regularly masturbates, his dirty socks are everywhere.

* FreudianExcuse: The Doctor claims that Hippolytus is "depressed" and a utter manchild because his Father is away or that he misses his birth mother, however Hippolytus averts this theory with his own to Phaedra:

* JerkassHasAPoint: Hippolytus tells Phaedra that her love won't change anything for him, he calls her out on her obsession and goes into detail about the life of a Prince is a dull excuse of a life, all his friends and lovers are false to be Royal is to be in a gilded cage.

* LowestCommonDenominator: Just to hammer home how much of a boring, awful derelict deviant Hippolytus is, we're introduced to him mindlessly watching television and basic Hollywood movies that are described to get graphically violent.
* {{Manchild}}: Hippolytus eats Pizza and Peanut Butter, incessantly watches television and generic, violent action movies that he jerks off to, and is surrounded by expensive toys he barely plays with. His room is a pigsty strewn with clothes; we're introduced to him using some questionably clean socks he picks off the floor to blow his nose and jerk off with before throwing them back on the floor. He's described as fat, too.

%%* RapeAsDrama: It's a retelling of Phaedra, and as such, it is one of the main plot points.

* FatBastard: The script describes Hippolytus as fat, and he's an ungrateful, misanthropic, misogynistic ManChild {{nerd}}.

* {{Nerd}}: The script implies Hippolytus is such: an overweight slob surrounded by pricey toys obsessing over television and Hollywood blockbusters.

* RapeAsDrama: It's a retelling of Phaedra, and as such, it is one of the main plot points.

* AdaptedOut: As said above the God's don't appear and characters like the Nurse are removed.

* DownerEnding: Well like all of Kane's plays are naturally dark [[spoiler:Hippolytus,Phaedra,Theseus and Strophe]] are dead.

* FreudianExcuse: The Doctor claims that Hippolytus is like it because his Father is away or that he misses his birth mother, however Hippolytus averts this theory with his own to Phaedra:
----> Hippolytus: I was born into this shit,you married it.

* {{Manchild}}: Hippolytus eats Pizza and Peanut Butter, watches TV and plays with a remote control car.

* RapeAsDrama: It's a retelling of Phaedra, it one of the main plot points.
* SexualKarma: All the Royal Family seems to suffer this.
* ShoutOut: Apart from the original myth and classical play it's based, Sarah Kane wrote quotations from the bible into the text.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Hippolytus is a man-child, whom hates every minute of his existance, yet it suggests everybody wants to sleep with him and he sees Phaedra's meaningful confession [[spoiler:and finally giving oral sex]] as pointless.
-->Hippolytus: "There. Mystery over"

* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: Level 9[[note]]Onstage rapes, tearing apart and disembowelment of a live victim.[[/note]].

---->Hippolytus: "There. Mystery over"

* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Hippolytus is a man-child, whom hates every minute of his existance, yet it suggests everybody wants to sleep with him and he sees

It is a loose retelling of the classical text Theatre/Hippolytus with Kane's iconic use of violence and taboo subjects unlike the classic text it displays the violence on stage. Sarah was commissioned by The Gate Theatre to write it, she would also direct it.

* AdaptationalDistillation: In this retelling the Gods don't have anything to do with the piece, the play is set in the complementary world rather than classic Greece. In fact the [[spoiler:execution of Hippolytus]] the chorus is a group of Brits that have come for the day out.

* FreudianExcuse: The Doctor claims that Hippolytus is like it because his Father is away or that he misses his birth mother, however Hippolytus averts this theory with his own:
----> Hippolytus: I was born into this shit.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Theseus]] has this after realising that he has [[spoiler:killed Strophe]].

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Hippolytus regularly masturbates, his socks are everywhere.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Despite Phaedra's claims there is nothing Gay about him Hippolytus doesn't care [[spoiler:the Priest who speaks to him in jail performs fellatio in him]].

* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Phaedra feels that the love she has for Hippolytus is more than her own for Theseus, she tells him [[spoiler:and he delights in telling her, he slept with her daughter and that daughter slept with Theseus]] it's too much for [[spoiler:her]].

* {{Jerkass}}: Hippolytus and

* EvenTheGuyWantHim: Despite Phaedra's claims there is nothing Gay about him Hippolytus doesn't care [[spoiler:the Priest who speaks to him in jail performs fellatio in him]].

* MonsScaleOfViolenceHardness: Level 9[[note]]Onstage rapes, tearing apart and disembowelment of a live victim.[[/note]].

* Jerkass

* DownerEnding: Well like all of Kane's plays [[spoiler:Hippolytus, Phaedra,Theseus and Strophe]] are dead.
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* AdaptationPersonaltyChange: All the characters are very different to the source material, Hippolytus is nihilistic due to his upbringing as a Prince, he sees life as a depressing, and no longer feel pleasure in anything.

* ButtMonkey: Phaedra treats Strophe briefly like one and Hipploytus treats everyone especially Phaedra to great dressing down of herself.

* AdaptationalDistillation: In this retelling the Gods don't have anything to do with the piece, the play is set in the complementary world rather than classic Greece.
* AdaptationalPersonaltyChange: All the characters are very different to the source material, Hippolytus is nihilistic due to his upbringing as a Prince, he sees life as a depressing and no longer feel pleasure in anything. Phaedra wants to help him partly to help her obsession with him.

It is a loose retelling of the classical text Theatre/Hippolytus with Kane's iconic use of violence and taboo subjects unlike the classic text it displays the violence on stage.
In this version Phaedra doomed love for Hippolytus is retold with him as the central character.
While the least performed of Sarah's few plays it does contain her wittiest dialogue.

It is a loose retelling of the classical text Theatre/Phaedra with Kane's iconic use of violence and taboo subjects unlike the classic text it displays the violence on stage.