Olia Lazaridou
Thēbae Desertae
By Kiriakos Charitos
Inspired by Sophocles’ Antigone
Now Thebes has the floor
These ruins you see
Are my scared walls
High temples and halls
The legions of men
The faint human breeze
That passed through my streets
Forgot me with ease
Memory is nothing but language. In the long-forsaken countryside, a voice searches for a girl once called Antigone. The city awakens and begins to remember, shifting in and out of dreams. Its pieces flicker with life, lingering fleetingly before dissolving into dust again.
Award-winning writer and screenwriter Kiriakos Charitos (recipient of the State Award for Children's Literature 2023) forges a folk fable inspired by the myth of Antigone, directed by Olia Lazaridou. Eschewing the linearity of a work that the audience knows by heart, Thēbae Desertae moves both forwards and backwards, possessing the form of a murmur and the shape of a song.
Oscillating between verse and prose, the narration remains in close rapport with the music performed live on stage. Actors and musicians assemble a dreamlike band that, at times, speaks, sings, or chants, transporting us to a land strewn with fragments of memory, like other burial offerings. The performance is conceptually linked to the inaugurating Festival production at Epidaurus (Sophocles’ Antigone, directed by Ulrich Rasche).
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