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Director Leda Hoffmann courts controversy with "Phaedra's Love"

Most directors go into their next show with a sense of excitement, the thrill of a new show in its earliest stages of life. However, before Leda Hoffmann began putting together and planning her staging of divisive British playwright Sarah Kane's "Phaedra's Love" - a modern retelling of the classic Greek tale - for The World's Stage Theatre Company, opening this weekend, the theater director felt one thing in particular. Horror.