Phèdre !

A speaker, played by actor Romain Daroles, on the pretext of talking about the play whose synopsis you're currently reading, ends up narrating and interpreting Racine's Phèdre.

Then the various facets of the work unfold under the effect of this specialist's delightful enthusiasm: Racine's unique and marvelous language, the force of the passions that the classical author depicts better than anyone else, the mythological origins of the protagonists (Phèdre, "daughter of Minos and Pasiphaé", granddaughter of the Sun, half-sister of the Minotaur, etc.), the historical context of the play and its history.), the historical context of the play's writing (17th-century French classical theater), the writing in alexandrines...

This is the first part of the trilogy that François Gremaud intends to devote to three great tragic female figures of the classical performing arts: Phèdre (theater), Giselle (ballet) and Carmen (opera).