It's twenty years since Isabelle Huppert last appeared in a London theatre. She certainly makes up for lost time now, delivering a tour de force of extraordinary physical abandon and mesmeric skill in this three-and-half-hour mash-up of different takes on the legend of Phaedra, the woman who, in Greek myth, is seized by a fatal passion for her stepson, Hippolytus. The actress is barely offstage during this multi-media marathon production, by Polish director Krzyzstof Warlikowski, which comes to LIFT from the Odeon-Theatre de l'Europe in Paris.
