Sophocles

The Oedipus Project is an innovative new digital initiative by Theater of War Productions that will present acclaimed actors performing scenes from Sophocles’ Oedipus the King as a catalyst for powerful, healing online conversations about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon diverse communities throughout the world. Sophocles’ ancient play, written and performed in 429 BC during the time of a plague that killed one-third of the Athenian population, is a timeless story of arrogant leadership, ignored prophecy, and a pestilence that ravages the city of Thebes. At the time the play was first performed, the audience would have been reeling in the wake of a pestilence and its economic, political, and social aftermath. Seen through this lens Oedipus the King appears to have been a powerful public health tool for helping Athenians communalize the trauma of the plague, through a story that is as relevant now as it was in its own time.

La adaptación de Sophie Deraspe de la clásica tragedia griega del mismo nombre reinventa la historia de la búsqueda de justicia de una mujer como un comentario sobre la experiencia de los inmigrantes en el Montreal contemporáneo.

In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the traitor Polyneices. But Antigone, Polyneices' sister, will not obey. When Creon's authority is challenged, a gripping conflict emerges between the power of an individual and the state. Polly Findlay's electric 2012 production brings Sophocles' tragedy into the modern world as a gripping political thriller.

La peste que azotó a Tebas en la tragedia de Sófocles es aquí la violencia sin par que¸ al igual¸ se ensaña en la Colombia de hoy. Edipo¸ un joven promotor de paz¸ es nombrado alcalde de un pueblo sumido en la miseria y en la violencia. Su primera misión consiste en descubrir y castigar a los asesinos de Layo¸ un conocido potentado de la región. Su investigación se orienta¸ entonces¸ hacia todas las facciones armadas que existen en Colombia: grupos guerrilleros¸ bandas paramilitares¸ organizaciones armadas de narcotraficantes¸ delincuentes comunes¸ fuerzas represivas del estado¸ etc. y al igual que en la tragedia clásica griega¸ el sueño premonitorio de Layo se cumple¸ resultando Edipo el asesino de su padre¸ el propio Layo¸ el amante de su madre y el padre de su hermano.

The Otto Schenk production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in January, 1994. Hildegard Behrens stars as Elektra, with Deborah Voigt as Chrysothemis, Brigitte Fassbaender as Klytämnestra, Donald McIntyre as Orest, and James King as Aegisth. James Levine conducts.

A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian tyrant Creon by burying him.

Elettra is adapted from the tragedy of Sophocles and played by non-professional actors of Casalborgone.

In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of death. But Antigone is determined that her brother's body will have the proper rites of burial.

Oedipus's wanderings come to an end when he finds his final resting place, as foretold by the gods. But his brother-in-law and his son each try to take him away.

Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king has gone unavenged, and Oedipus sets out to find the killer.

Mise-en-scène of the classic tragedy of Sofocles, carried out by Antoine Vitez in the National Theatre of Chaillot

Shot by Tonino De Bernardi in 1986 before his 'Elettra' made for RAI.

Adaptation of the greek tragedy.

On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order.

On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order.

Edipo, hijo de Layo y Yocasta, reyes de Tebas, es abandonado de niño para que se muera, al conocer por una profecía que será el asesino de su padre. Pero el niño es salvado y adoptado por el rey de Corinto. Sin conocer sus orígenes, regresa a Tebas cuando ya es adulto y se cruza en su camino con Layo. Tras una discusión, lo mata, sin saber que era su padre. Posteriormente contrae matrimonio en Tebas con la viuda del rey, es decir, su propia madre.

Este filme ubica al héroe legendario Hércules junto al príncipe Ulises, en ruta a Tebas para cumplir una importante misión diplomática. En un descanso, Hércules bebe de cierto manantial que le hace perder la memoria. En tal situación cae en manos de los soldados de la pérfida Reina de Lidia, que convierte al musculoso semidios en su amante rey. Pero Ulises intenta con ingenio hacer que Hércules recuerde su misión y auténtica identidad. Esta pobre anécdota central se amplia con una feroz lucha inicial entre Hércules y el gigante Anteo, con las luchas intestinas entre los sanguinarios hijos de Edipo, cada uno al mando de una facción opuesta, los peligros mortales de Iole, la esposa de Hércules y la expedición de Creón para rescatar al protagonista.

Versión televisiva de la obra de Sófocles.

The story of Oedipus' gradual discovery of his primal crime, killing his father and marrying his mother, filmed by the famed British theatrical director Sir Tyrone Guthrie. This elegant version of Sophocles' play adds a brilliant stroke: the actors wear masks just as the Greeks did in the playwright's day.