In the organizer's words:
LAIOS
Play by Roland Schimmelpfennig
Director Hans Dreher | Assistant directors Judith Freitag, Kerstin Sommer, Leonie Ernst | Set designer Marius Glagovsek | Sign language interpreter Rafael-Evitan Grombelka | Music Max Kotzmann | Lighting Joachim Kiel | With Laura Thomas
Premiere: May 10, 2024 | Duration: approx. 1 hour, 15 minutes (without intermission)
Performance rights: S. Fischer Theater- und Medien Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt
"Laios" is a takeover from the Prinz Regent Theater Bochum
a man / kills his son, / the father / kills the son / or he wants to kill him / and yet doesn't kill him, / or was it the mother, / because the son / will kill the father
Almost everyone knows the infamous son - Oedipus - but the name of his cursed father is far less well known: Laius. As the rightful heir to the throne, Laius is brought back from exile to Thebes and crowned king. At his side is his lover, the young Chrysippus. The citizens of Thebes whisper: is Chrysippus the reason why Laius and the queen, Iocaste, have not yet had children? When the Sphinx, a creature with the body of a lion, the wings of an eagle and the head of a woman, circles over the city, it dawns on the citizens of Thebes that something sinister is about to happen.
LAIOS is the independent second part of a multi-part commissioned work on antiquity written by Roland Schimmelpfennig for the Schauspielhaus Hamburg. The trade magazine THEATER HEUTE has chosen LAIOS as the 2024 play of the year.
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