Oscar and Emmy winner Julianne Moore is set to play the title role in Faydra, a lusty new play by In the Next Room Tony nominee Sarah Ruhl that will have its world premiere Off Broadway next year.
Per the logline of the modern take on the Ancient Greek myth of Phaedra: Aphrodite aims her bow at Faydra and lets an arrow of love fly. Nothing is ever the same. Mostly because the object of Faydra’s sudden, all-devouring lust is her soon-to-be stepson. Faydra explores the impossibility of reconciling logic and longing — especially for a woman unwilling to deny
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