A major revival of Sarah Kane’s blackly comic reworking of Seneca’s classical tragedy of monarchy, incest and fatal obsession.

Phaedra’s Love is a visceral, savagely funny deconstruction of a royal family in disarray and a society on the brink of ruin.

Sarah Kane was at the forefront of a new wave of writing in the 90s – termed in-yer-face – that challenged the form of British Theatre. She burst quickly on to the scene in 1995 with her controversial play Blasted, which was followed by four more plays over the next four years – Phaedra’s Love, Cleansed, Crave and 4.48 Psychosis. Kane committed suicide in February 1999, aged 28, after battling with mental illness. She described Phaedras Love as “my comedy”.

RC productions have produced shows at the Edinburgh Festival, Soho Theatre and Jermyn Street Theatre. Their emphasis is on new writing and unfairly forgotten works, cast with both well-known and up and coming actors.