Oedipe Roi

Œdipe Roi based on Sophocles Considered the tragedy of tragedies, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is one of the first occurrences of incest in European literature.

Œdipe Roi

based on Sophocles

Considered the tragedy of tragedies, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is one of the first occurrences of incest in European literature. Behind the founding myth of Western theatre, however, a blind spot remains: real incest and its millions of individual victims. What can art do in the face of incest? And what, in return, does incest do to art, to image and to language? This question is all the more urgent given that silence is precisely how the “culture of incest” organises its impunity and perpetuates itself, generation after generation. Through a personal and historical investigation of great emotional power, blending the history of psychoanalysis and social sciences with a meditation on the art of theatre, Eddy D’aranjo continues his search for a renewed political theatre combining performance and documentary — two regimes of truth serving an art determined to show reality as it is, for what it is. Director: Eddy D’aranjo

Cast: Edith Biscaro, Eddy D’aranjo, Clémence Delille, Volodia Piotrovitch d'Orlik

Contemporary Theatre

From 16 years old

Show duration: 4 hours with an intermission. Access for people with reduced mobility: 01 44 85 40 40