Italy

In an age of rubble, all that remains is to work with the remnants: tragedy and silent words; the ruins of the polis, a society of strangers. Upon these ruins rises El canto de Edipo. Director Alessandro Serra rewrites the legend of Oedipus for a contemporary audience, using the text as a path toward a lost collective knowledge and to restore the power of the myth. 

Inspired by Sophocles, Serra seeks to restore the original power of myth and tragedy. To do so, he turns to Grecanico, a living vestige of Greek that still resonates in ancient Magna Graecia—an archaic, musical, and instinctive language capable of awakening visions.

In a Thebes reduced to ashes, arid and decadent, Oedipus sets out on his journey to Colonus, where the myth reaches its destination. Blind and exiled, the king of Thebes embodies the condition of contemporary humanity. Thus, the play rescues, from the ruins of classical tragedy, the voice of ritual, of the polis, and of the ancient human desire to know oneself.