Racine meets his match.(To You, the Birdie!)(Brief Article)

The Wooster Group's To You, the Birdie! will appear at the London International Festival of Theatre May 9-23 the International Istanbul Theatre Festival May 31-June 4 and the Kai Theater in Brussels June 13-18

THE WOOSTER arrange NEVER FAILS TO astound. With To You, the Birdie!, their (sub)version of Racine's Phedre, they don't fail one time again. Gone is the clash of inter-texts, gone the wild dances that break the tension. Here, told with classic concision, is the tragic myth of Phedre, queen to Theseus, curs through Venus to conceive a fatal attraction to Hippolytos, her