Oedipus in Settler

AUTHOR: Jorge Marquez Diaz

Synopsis

Blind after learning of his tragic past, old Oedipus wanders, accompanied by his daughter Antigone, until he reaches Colono, a suburb of Athens where, as the gods told him, Oedipus must die.

Technical data

Gender:
Tragedy

Female characters:
2

Male characters:
4

Premiered, Edited

Space
1

Duration
60 - 90 min.

Year of establishment
1992

Other data

Release date: 1992

Place of premiere: Festival of Classical Theatre of Mérida

Artistic team: Fermín Reixach, Maite Brik, Maria Luisa San José, Manuel Gallardo, Tony Isbert, Miguel Palenzuela, Antonio Duque.

Date of Publication: 1993

Editorial: Editions Classics. Madrid

Jorge Márquez Díaz
About the author

Jorge Marquez Diaz

He has written more than twenty plays and received the premio Lope de Vega, "the Knives of paper" (2010), which speaks of "the decline of the western society of today, that foster the ambition for money and the status of the individual at any price and at the expense of values such as honesty, solidarity, friendship, and even the family and, finally, one's own life". Performed in addition to adaptations of texts of Sophocles, García de la Huerta and Lope de Vega. He has also written essay and novels, of which "The light of the thirteen dogs" (1997) was awarded first prize City of Salamanca. According to the Spanish Wesley J. Weaver III, his theatre is the tone of hyper-realism and its characters more tours are the outcasts and losers. He led the International Festival of Classical Theatre of Mérida between 2000 and 2005.

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