Oedipus

Based on motifs from ancient Greek myths

Oedipus

A philosophical experience with mistakes

How much of our lives do we really choose ourselves?

“Oedipus” is a study of a man trying to understand to what extent he is the author of his own life. The performance begins after the death of King Oedipus and continues in an apparent afterlife, in which Oedipus, together with his alter ego Him, tries to make sense of his fate.

Choice and inevitability, guilt and responsibility, fear and the desire to determine one’s own life. The search for the father who gave the order, the shepherd who did not carry it out, and the man who killed King Laius inevitably leads back to Oedipus himself. But what does it mean to be guilty of something you did not know? And what does it mean to be responsible for a choice that seemed at that moment to be the only right one? Faith in fate, which sometimes becomes a convenient way to evade responsibility, and the moment when the search for the guilty turns into a question: if disaster is right here, then who is really to blame?

Perhaps the most dangerous thing is not fate, from which there is no escape, but the conviction that our choices do not matter.

Starring Jēkabs Pikšēns, Jana Ļisova

Creative team:

Director, playwright Jēkabs Pikšēns

Set designer Agata Agafija Alna

Choreographer Santa Gribuste

Costume designer Anastasija Šiklova

Video, animation artist Līva Klepere

Visual identity Helēna Zenta Frolova

Executive producer Marta Kātiņa

Production support Kristīne Freiberga, Ance Ancova, Elza Strazdiņa

National School of Stage Arts of the Latvian Academy of Culture

Creative work for the Bachelor study subprogram “Dramatic Theatre Actor’s Art”

Course leader Assoc. Prof. Indra Roga

Performance duration:

Age limit: 14+

The performance uses strobe lighting, artificial smoke, elevated sound levels, and contains explicit language.

Ticket price - EUR 12.00 and EUR 6.00 (for schoolchildren, students, pensioners, people with disabilities, and holders of the Latvian Honorary Family Card).

Venue of the performance - LKA National Film School Pavilion (Miera iela 58A, Riga).