National Theatre of Greece
Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus Rex
The National Theatre of Greece’s second production is equally innovative.
Roula Pateraki, an outstanding artist who never settles for a conventional approach, directs Sophocles’ two Oedipus plays (Oedipus Rex, 420 BC, and Oedipus at Colonus, 406 BC) in a single production featuring a hand-picked cast with Michail Marmarinos in the title role.
Having found out the truth – that Oedipus is his father’s murderer and his mother’s husband – Jocasta hangs herself and Oedipus, “blind where he once could see and poor instead of rich, will head for a strange land”. Accompanied by Antigone, he arrives in Athens and the grove of the Eumenides, where he is fated to die and be buried [V.T.].
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