The figure of Oedipus lies at the centre of the two plays created by Chiara Guidi – cofounder of Societas Raffaello Sanzio, now known as Societas –, who has always been involved in a form of theatrical research that examines the voice as a dramatical cipher to unlock the sounds and meaning of a text.
In Sophocles’ tragedy, explains the director – who also performs and writes –, “nothing that is said is seen, and the events are entrusted to the words and the sound of voices”. Only with the voice – in the sound of letters, syllables, vowels and consonants that, as in the myths of cosmogony, express the mysteries of the representation of the world - Oedipus discovers the truth of his origins and his destiny.