Œdipe Roi

Considered the tragedy of tragedies, Sophocles' Œdipe roi is one of the first occurrences of incest in European literature. Behind the founding myth of Western theater, however, a blind spot remains: real incest and its millions of singular victims. What can art do about incest? And what does incest, in turn, do to art, image and language? A question made all the more compelling by the fact that silence is precisely what enables the "culture of incest" to organize its impunity and perpetuate itself, generation after generation. Through a personal and historical investigation of great emotional force, blending the history of psychoanalysis and the social sciences with a meditation on the art of theater, Eddy D'aranjo pursues his search for a renewed political theater blending performance and documentary - two regimes of truth in the service of an art determined to show reality as it is, for what it is.