Ödipus Exzellenz

In the organizer's words:

"Which is the greater guilt: knowing it but not saying anything, or being blind to it?"

Lorenz Nolting & Sofie Boiten

The plague is spreading in Thebes. King Oedipus, the only one spared from it, is aware of his fate with a strange sensitivity and stands helplessly before his doom-stricken city.

He hopes for redemption from the oracle at Delphi, but the prophecy turns against him: this evil is not due to divine fate, but to his personal failure. So how does a ruler behave when confronted with his own guilt?

However, the production does not explore this question within the ancient drama, but against the backdrop of another, equally ancient institution: the Catholic Church. The story of King Oedipus becomes a mirror of an institution that has refused to look for decades and reveals the mechanisms of abuse of power and its concealment.