One of the costumes designed by Philip Prowse for Glenda Jackson in the title role of Jean Racine's play 'Phedra' performed at the Old Vic, London, 21st November 1984 by the Lupton Theatre Company. It was made by Susanna Wilson.

Philip Prowse as director and designer put his stamp on this stylish, ‘thrilling’ staging. The stage was dominated by swaged curtains of tarnished gold, gilt throne, funeral urns and horses heads and the costumes, as John Barber said in his review in the Daily Telegraph, ‘approximate sumptuously to the period’ (that is the seventeenth century France of Racine). Milton Shulman however considered that the women’s voluminous robes ‘make them look as if they were trapped in ornate gas balloons’.

Glenda Jackson’s performance in this production was much admired Michael Billington described it as ‘the stuff of tragedy: the cry of a cornered soul’ and the Observer said ‘Glenda Jackson’s range of passions lurches from molton desire to icy humiliation, her voice a corncrake crackle or a purr’.

The English stage version of Racine's text was by Robert David MacDonald, and the production was directed and designed by Philip Prowse. The lighting was designed by Gerry Jenkinson, the producer was Colin Brough The production later transferred to the Aldwych Theatre, London.