Play Date presented by Crane Creations – Phaedra by Jean Racine

When: September 21st at 7:00 pm

Where: Zoom

About the Event:

Play Date is an online monthly play reading club by Crane Creations Theatre Company
where you can read or listen to a play, live on Zoom. Play Date is a great activity if you
want to practice English by reading aloud, are a lover of theatre and want to read great
plays from around the world, or want to connect with other people.
This month we are reading Phaedra by Jean Racine.

About the Play:
Phaedra or Phèdre, written by Jean Racine, is a 5 act tragedy based on ancient Greek
mythology. Phaedra is about the tragic downfall of a noble family, and the forbidden
love, dark secrets, passion and intrigue surrounding their demise. Phaedra is written in
alexandrine verse, meaning each line has 12 syllables with major stress on the sixth
syllable. Phaedra is considered one of the masterful works of western dramatic
literature. Voltaire has called it “the masterpiece of the human mind”.

Register for our next session at https://www.cranecreations.ca/play-reading-circle