Isabelle Huppert appears as multiple Phaedras in Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe production at BAM (photo courtesy of Odéon Théâtre De L’Europe)
PHÈDRE(S)
Brooklyn Academy of Music
BAM Harvey Theater
651 Fulton St.
September 13-18, $30-$95
718-636-4100
www.bam.org
In 2005, French superstar Isabelle Huppert was devastating in Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychose, part of BAM’s Next Wave Festival. Four years later she returned to the festival in Robert Wilson’s Quartett, a wild adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses for Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe. Huppert and Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe are now back at BAM with Krzysztof Warlikowski’s Phaedra(s), a two-hundred-minute production in which the award-winning Huppert (La Cérémonie, The Piano Teacher) plays three versions of the title character from Greek mythology, taken from Kane’s Phaedra’s Love and writings by Wajdi Mouawad and J. M. Coetzee. Huppert and Warlikowski previously worked together in 2004 on The Dybbuk and 2010 in A Streetcar Named Desire. The dramaturgy is by Piotr Gruszczynski, with sets and costumes by Malgorzata Szczesniak, lighting by Felice Ross, music by Pawel Mykietyn, video by Denis Guéguin, and choreography by Claude Bardouil and Rosalba Torres Guerrero. The show runs September 13-18; in addition, Huppert will participate in a discussion about Phaedra(s) with Simon Critchley on September 17 at the Hillman Attic Studio ($25, 5:00), and Charles Mee, Caridad Svich, and moderator Kaneza Schaal will gather for “Phaedra Interpreted” on September 18 (free, 11:00 am) at Borough Hall Courtroom as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, in conjunction with BAM and the Onassis Cultural Center New York.