6 November| 17:00 și 21:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre Bucharest, Ion Caramitru Hall (Big Hall)
Itinerant performance within the theatre building / only standing tickets
Declan Donnellan’s performance is set in our times, during the Covid pandemic.
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By: Sofocle
Translated by: Theodor Georgescu, Constantin Georgescu
Cast:
Oedip: Claudiu Mihail
Iocasta: Ramona Drăgulescu
Creon: Vlad Udrescu
Tiresias: Tamara Popescu
Priest: Alex Calangiu
Messenger: Nicolae Vicol
Second messenger: Iulia Colan
Corypheus: Angel Rababoc
Chorus: Raluca Păun, Ovidiu Cârstea
Shepherd: Eugen Titu
Merope: Corina Druc
Polybus: Bruno Noferi
Medical staff 1: Roxana Mutu
Medical staff 2: Iarina Zidaru
Medical staff 3: Adelina Galiceanu
Medical staff 4: Ioana Andone
Medical staff 5: Cătălina Vînătoru
Nurse and Priest: Mihai Alexandru Purcaru
Pacient: Petri Ștefănescu
Medical staff 6: Irina Danciu
Antigona as a child: Ioana Vicol
Ismena as a child: Romana Vicol
Directed by: Declan Donnellan
Set design: Nick Ormerod
Assistant director: Laurențiu Tudor
Set designer assistants: Adelina Galiceanu, Petri Ștefănescu
Original music: Cári Tibor
Light design: Dodu Ispas
Playwriting consultant: Haricleea Nicolau
Producer: Marin Sorescu National Theatre Craiova
Duration: 1h 20min
Not suitable under 16 years of age
The performance contains non-sexual nudity
Itinerant performance within the theater building / only standing tickets
Performance in Romanian with English subtitles
Sophocles assimilates the myth of the Labdacids and picks up the story from the time when he is already king of Thebes and the city finds itself at a critical moment – the plague epidemic of 430 BC. Declan Donnellan’s performance is set in our time, at the time of the Covid pandemic. Oedipus’ subjects come to the palace, begging him to save the city from the plague. Creon, Oedipus’ brother-in-law, brings a verdict from the oracle at Delphi: the plague will not end until the murderer of Laios, the former king of Thebes who had been killed many years before, is driven from the city. Oedipus launches an investigation to find out the truth about his origin: Oedipus is the son of Laius, whom he murdered without knowing who he is and then married his mother, Jocasta, who bore him four children. After learning the truth, Jocasta kills herself and Oedipus gouges out his eyes.
Photo credit: Cristian Floriganță
