In her forty-five-year movie career, Isabelle Huppert has played classical and modern heroines, intellectuals and workers, for directors including Michael Haneke, Michael Cimino, Claire Denis, and Hong Sang-soo. This vast interpretive spectrum converges in her multifaceted role in the play “Phaedra(s),” at BAM’s Harvey Theatre, Sept. 13-18. The text, based on works by Sarah Kane, J. M. Coetzee, and Wajdi Mouawad, turns the tormented queen of Greek mythology into a figure of pornography, aristocracy, and the bourgeoisie.
Isabelle Huppert’s Vast Spectrum
In “Phaedra(s),” the actress plays the tormented queen of Greek mythology as a figure of pornography, aristocracy, and the bourgeoisie.
Photograph by Ioulex for The New Yorker
