Olivier Py
Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants
by Aeschylus
Provocative actor, poet and director, and poet Olivier Py attempts to give meaning to the present by re-interpreting two major plays of the Western canon: Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound and The Suppliants. Directed and translated into French by Olivier Py, this two-part, minimalist production with a cast of three premiered last summer at the Festival d’Avignon. In Prometheus Bound, a play that is at once metaphysical and deeply political, a Titan is tortured by the gods on account of his love for humanity. He thus becomes an eternal symbol of disobedience, a political prisoner par excellence. In Py’s words, Prometheus offers a “lesson in insurrection.” The Suppliants also raises questions about the age-old political issues of democracy, justice, the law, respect for foreigners and women. Aeschylus’ views resonate throughout the performance: the law cannot be the answer to everything. The theatre becomes necessary as a dialectical space of debate and reflection. Traditional notions of catharsis as an act of spectacular purge should be renegotiated: anger should not prevail.
In French, with Greek and English surtitles
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