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Phaidros (2018)
Directed by Mara Mattuschka
Overview
Phaidros is based on Plato’s eponymous dialogue and plays in an LBQT+ milieu of a present-day metropolis. The actor Emil is meant to embody the character of the poet Phaedrus in a battle of words with Werner Maria, who slips into the role of Socrates. When the borders between friendship and sexual initiation soon blur beyond the events on stage, too, the shrill, carnivalesque scenario turns into grotesque love triangles and quadrangles, which ultimately even cause a casualty.
Length 98 minutes
Actors
Julian Sharp | Alexander E. Fennon | Nicola Filippelli | May Teodosio | Tamara Mascara