Edipo. Tragedy of the senses for one spectator – Teatro del Lemming

Italy

For ancient Greeks to see and to know were the same thing. Peaceful, also if sadder than anyone, the one who could recognize himself blinded. Edipo’s blindness concerns the inscrutability of the future and the inability to domain his past. Edipo blinds himself because he reveals to the world his inner blindness, because he gets a deeper consciousness.
Everyone wants to work out the Enigma. But the Enigma remains unsolved, is shifty as our mirror image. Who am I? How could I live all this? The most important problem of Edipo is identity. My identity. The other problem is free willing: are my actions free or am I moved by something that is choosing my life in place of me?
In Edipo I reveal my blindness. Perception is enlarged. All my senses are directly involved. In a dramaturgic reversal of traditional roles, I/the spectator become the actor of the action. I find myself in Edipo.
Time for reflections come after, NOW we have to live.

Credits
Music and direction: Massimo Munaro
Collaboration at the dramaturgy: Roberto Domeneghetti

Duration: 30 min.
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Already performed in Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, and Poland.

Teatro del Lemming

Teatro del Lemming is an experimental theatre company founded in 1987 by Massimo Munaro and Martino Ferrari. Funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture since 1997 the company has won many awards including Prize Totola, Prize Piccoli Palcoscenici, the UBU prize, Giuseppe Bartolucci and Silver Snowflake at the Sarajevo Winter Festival. Teatro del Lemming is recognized as one of the leading companies of the new Italian and European theatre.
More info about the company at www.teatrodellemming.it