Phaedra by Matthew Maguire
May 8th at 8pm
May 9,10,11 and 16,17
Friday and Saturday at 8pm and 3pm on Sunday
On Thursday May 8 and Sunday May 11 tickets are pay-what-you-can
Stone Soup Theatre, 4035 Stone Way North, Seattle,WA 98103

Cast: Bradley Harrington, Jennie Luiten, Rachel Santoro, Don Taylor, Steve West, & Haley Wolfe

Maguire's Phaedra is a contemporary response to Racine's classic, in which he asks the questions: What is desire and why does it never release us? What are the elusive and amoral mechanisms of desire? Ben Brantley in the New York Times said,"Mr. Maguire has the smart idea of extending the sexual interests of the characters to explore desire as a verb in eternal fruitless search of an object." This is a provocative story of forbidden love, and as such, must end badly. (directed by Gregory Berry)

Matthew Maguire is a co-artistic director of Creation Production Company. His plays include The Tower, originally commissioned by the Walker Art Center, Phaedra, and Throwin' Bones. He created with Philip Glass and Molissa Fenley A Descent Into the Maelstrom, based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe, for Australia's Adelaide Festival, and wrote the libretto for Chaos, an opera with music by Michael Gordon.Matthew is the Acting Head of the Theatre Program at Fordham University as well as the Head of the Playwriting Program. An OBIE award winner for acting in 1998 for his performance in Mac Wellman's one-man play, I Don't Know Who He Was and I Don't Know What He Said. In 2007 Maguire won an OBIE for the direction of his play Abandon. In 2005 he received the Back Stage West Garland Award of Honorable Mention for Best Adaptation/Translation, for Phaedra. He lives in New York City.