Oedipus Complete
Short summary in English language
The whole performance is held outdoors.
We recommend warm clothes and enclosed shoes.
Possibility to obtain a quantity discount of -25%.
Regular NdB discounts can be applied to tickets.
The discount for seniors is 30%.
The discount for disabled persons and students is 50%.
Discounts are not to be combined.
Queen Iocaste desires to have a child. King Laios keeps secrets. The inhabitants of Thebes are counting the victims of bloodthirsty Sphinx. A disaster is looming ahead.
King Oedipus opts for transparency in politics. Queen Iocaste refuses to learn about the past. Thebans are counting the dead during plague. A catastrophe is impending.
Princess Antigone would love to know her father. The blind Oedipus doesn’t want to be a burden to others. Calm reigns over Thebes; it’s the calm before the storm. How come that all are so blind?
The trilogy encompasses the play Laios by Hana Lehečková directed by Zuzana Burianová, the iconic tragedy King Oedipus by Sophocles (translated by Petr Borkovec and Matyáš Havrda) under the direction of Ivo Kristián Kubák, and the dance libretto The Abyss by Marie Nováková and Václav Kuneš.
A co-production project involving Tygr v Tísni, VILLA Štvanice and the Theatre World Brno Festival.
Direction: Zuzana Burianová, Ivo Kristián Kubák, Václav Kuneš
Dramaturgy: Marie Nováková
Set Design: Jana Hauskrechtová
Music: Ivan Acher
Choreography: Václav Kuneš
Cast: Rosalie Malinská, Jan Meduna, Mikuláš Čížek, Denis Šafařík, Matěj Nechvátal, Gabriela Mikulková, Miroslav Zavičár, Michal Kern, Hanuš Bor, Jonathan Glazer, Peter Varga and Václav Kuneš