Phaedra, the wife of King Theseus of Athens, burns with loving passion for Hippolytus, Theseus’s son by his first wife. The young man, descendant of the queen of the Amazons, attracted by nature’s inherent promise of innocence, devoted to hunting and detached from family ties, rejects the queen’s offer, who thus plots a vicious vendetta against him, carried out by Theseus, totally unaware. The tragedy finishes with the violent death of Hippolytus and the suicide of Phaedra. As the director Andrea De Rosa explains: “I have always been fascinated by stories dominated by a dark component, and when you work on “legends”, you always find yourself faced with this type of force, potent and mysterious (...). The Latin word what Seneca used most often to describe Phaedra’s state of mind is furor, which means madness, but also, and just as importantly, violent passion, amorous delirium, unbridled desire. Whatever meaning we use, this word leads to a vision of love which forcefully sweeps away the romantic and sentimental sediment that has been deposited on this subject. Here love is seen literally as something with which one becomes possessed, something which come from outside, something deeply foreign, like a virus which begins to reproduce in our body without our permission”.