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Royal Exchange boss unveils new plays two years after damaging censorship row

Selina Cartmell announces season including Stockport-set version of Phaedra myth by Simon Stephens

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20

Sci-fi RPG 'Exodus''s combat looks and feels like 'Mass Effect', but the dialogue system could be a big upgrade (video)

Jun Aslan and Phaedra share a quiet chat in Archetype Entertainment's latest Community Update.

Space · May 6

‘It will be frightening but you have to do it’: Andrew Lincoln and Alicia Vikander’s nerve-shredding stage return

Can two world-famous actors and auteur Simon Stone bring 19th-century Norway screaming into the modern world? They talk mean directors, bathtub revelations and reinventing Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea

The Guardian - UK · Sep 8, 2025

Phaedra/Minotaur review – gripping double bill scales the heights of emotion

Mezzo soprano Christine Rice is compelling in the first half while dancers in the dreamlike second part are a revelation in Deborah Warner’s simply staged show

The Guardian - UK · Aug 19, 2023

The week in theatre: Phaedra; Sylvia; Standing at the Sky’s Edge – review

Lyttelton; Old Vic; Olivier, LondonJanet McTeer is mighty in Simon Stone’s electric remaking of myth; dance, not speech, powers Kate Prince’s suffragette musical; and Richard Hawley’s paean to Sheffield finds a home from home

The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2023

‘Being an older woman portraying sexuality? I literally never think about it’: Janet McTeer on Phaedra and avoiding fame

The ‘Albert Nobbs’ and ‘Ozark’ star is about to play Phaedra in a new National Theatre production. She talks to Jessie Thompson about ‘one of the most vilified anti-heroines ever’, embracing her height, and Oscar nominations

The Independent UK · Feb 2, 2023

Director Simon Stone: ‘My heroes are women’

The innovative Australian director who successfully cast Billie Piper in Yerma is now reframing Phaedra as a postmenopausal love story with Janet McTeer

The Guardian - UK · Jan 21, 2023